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You're comparing a group chat to an encyclopedia...
Wikipedia has become closer to group chat. And twitter closer to valuable dissemination of first person content.
Pakistani gov degrades Wikipedia connections due to blasphemy
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#102I'm starting to view more and more things as nationalism vs globalism. E.g. multinational corporations vs national tax laws E.g. global internet services vs national privacy laws E.g. global internet services vs national decency laws (the posted issue) I'm starting to realise this mismatch is where a lot of friction is and will continue to be.
Decency laws is too kind of way to put this - they're forcing their religion on others. If countries would stop censoring free speech, we wouldn't have the problem at all.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're comparing a group chat to an encyclopedia...
I'd describe Twitter as closer to a news site in the modern era. There are a lot of journalists and other important public figures sharing information there, and that's especially true for important live news events like earthquakes. (Twitter is the first place I check if I feel the house shake, for example.)
the presence of journalists does not make twitter a "news" site. Twitter is a firehose of misinformation and nonsense, a fraction of which has some value.
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#104Oh no! Anyway...
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#105Twitter appears to have complied with removing the BBC documentary tweets for users in India. So some tweets are not available in India. It does look like Wikipedia is ahead of Twitter in the free speech absolutist game if it prefers being blocked to compliance.
I think he always specified that it was within the limits of local laws. Were the links removed for every country, or just in india?
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That implies that “modern” is unequivocally better than anything else.
Not sure why people are down-voting this.
While theocracy is a clear and present danger, "modern" is too broad a label to apply as a counter to it.
The more accurate counter would be policy based on empiricism. This is not predicated on the idea that the progression of time advances all things, but rather a timeless philosophy that has had its peaks and troughs throughout history.
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It is power and the drive to preserve power that is behind much of this. Religion is a convenient scapegoat in the case of islam because much of the islamic world is some combination of poor and lacking freedom. Islam is also in the relatively unique situation of mixing religion with politics that leads to the power struggle in the first place.
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#109Previously there was a comment that was quite elucidative made by an HN user here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34304824 In recent years I've come around to viewing the American ideal of absolute "free speech" as not being all that nuanced, particularly because we know know the speed at which viral false and illegitimate claims travel and the slower speed at which reasoned responses to those speech travel. I…
>I think we can all agree
No.
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#110I can hardly imagine an idea more ridiculous than "blasphemy". The G-d is not a psychologically immature human being easy to offend. Nothing a human might possibly say can change the state of G-d from perfect harmony to anything else.
Why are you selfcensoring "God"?