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> For instance, you can't stand on a street corner and try to recruit people to join ISIS. You can't threaten to hurt or kill someone. You can't show pornograph

> For instance, you can't stand on a street corner and try to recruit people to join ISIS. You can't threaten to hurt or kill someone. You can't show pornography to minors, or show anyone pornography that contains minors. > These are all very popular restrictions on free speech. A person can engage in any of the activities you describe. They will just be dealt with by those elected by the people under law established by the people. Google, Facebook and many others are deciding what they feel you should see based on their own prejudices, identity politics, agenda-driven deals, control and manipulation of information and/or other factors. It's a slippery slope indeed with no oversight, no means to defend yourself. A person, a domain... simply gets wiped from existence. It's like AT&T monitoring phone calls (oh, wait...) and killing your phone service because of something you said in a group chat. Or an ISP monitoring your online activities (oh, wait...) and cutting service because you visited a controversial (but legal) site. Or a building owner tossing you out on the street because your politics don't align with his/hers. We have laws. We also have agencies whose functions are to deal with those breaking those laws. If a domain is doing something illegal - let the law handle it and not your "well-meaning" Uncle Scrooge and his shotgun. We also have laws against vigilantes. Are the Googles, Facebooks and others turning into information vigilantes?

dragonwriter 9y ago
> We also have laws against vigilantes. Are the Googles, Facebooks and others turning into information vigilantes? No, they are the owners of major digital presses that other people would like to use. But they have the freedom to choose what to use them for. You can say whatever you want; that is protected by free speech. Google can choose not to provide a venue and assistance to you in publicizing those views; that, too, is free speech. Your freedom of speech does not entitle you to commandeer the resources of unwilling third parties to deliver your speech. If you want collaborators, you need to convince them.

dragonwriter 9y ago

> We also have laws against vigilantes. Are the Googles, Facebooks and others turning into information vigilantes? No, they are the owners of major digital presses that other people would like to use. But they have the freedom to choose what to use them for. You can say whatever you want; that is protected by free speech. Google can choose not to provide a venue and assistance to you in publicizing those views; that, too, is free speech. Your freedom of speech does not entitle you to commandeer the resources of unwilling third parties to deliver your speech. If you want collaborators, you need to convince them.