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The solution to bad speech is good speech, not censorship.
It's pretty clear that many will soon move to platforms designed to be resilient to moderation.
Hypothetically, how would you go about staying online completely independently? Let's say you build your own data center, buy the real estate (because a landlord could be pressured to cancel your lease), purchase all the network equipment, and hire your own full-time employees. You still need to lease an IP block and a fiber connection from a carrier (like AT&T, Century Link, etc.). Couldn't they deplatform you too?…
Literally Trump's appointee for the FCC removed that regulation (it was called net neutrality).
If people on an app continually call for violence and violate your TOS you can boot them off. Especially if the app in question has no good faith moderation of content to meet your terms of service and their terms of service are either lacking or wink wink levels of enforcement. You can have ANY political perspective you want! Lower taxes, raise taxes, immigration policy, school choice, charter schools WHATEVER! You…
Do you not see a problem here?
I'm curious to see how far things have gone. Does anyone here believe that an employer should be able to fire an employee for supporting Trump?
Everyone saying this is a slippery slope to tech companies regulating speech are being completely ridiculous. https://twitter.com/IntelDoge/status/1348099918381068289 Check the images there. People are literally planning murder on Parler and people are acting as if AWS, Apple, etc should not do anything. Parler REFUSES to remove these posts. I could see if it was something other than murder, or violence but I can't t…
The solution to bad speech is good speech, not censorship.
Hypothetically, how would you go about staying online completely independently? Let's say you build your own data center, buy the real estate (because a landlord could be pressured to cancel your lease), purchase all the network equipment, and hire your own full-time employees. You still need to lease an IP block and a fiber connection from a carrier (like AT&T, Century Link, etc.). Couldn't they deplatform you too?…
>But the essence of man is no abstraction inherent in each single individual. In reality, it is the ensemble of the social relations. We should really fear the very near future in which it's so easy to assasinate a man by simply pushing a button and cut off all of his social relations.