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Well, did GoDaddy and CloudFlare suppress the Daily Stormer? Or did they choose not to do business with them? I don't believe that they engaged in censorship, b

Well, did GoDaddy and CloudFlare suppress the Daily Stormer? Or did they choose not to do business with them? I don't believe that they engaged in censorship, because they didn't prevent the Daily Stormer from being accessible. I believe that choosing not to do business with them was a form of speech, and that acting in the way they did was them expressing free speech. Thus, to me, in order to believe that what they did was censorship, that means that they should not be able to take that course of action, and that those companies were obligated to assist the Daily Stormer in getting its message out there.

dominotw 9y ago
>Well, did GoDaddy and CloudFlare suppress the Daily Stormer? Yes they surpassed it on their platform. Censorship doesn't mean "make inaccessible to everyone on any platform". If you censor something on your own platform its still called censorship. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Indian govt censors kissing on movie screens but you can still go watch it on youtube. That doesn't mean what they are doing is not censorship, the govt entity that's responsible for it is actually called "censor board".
- s73ver_ 9y ago
  GoDaddy and CloudFlare are not government. The Indian Government is. That's a large difference. And I still don't believe what they did was censorship. That was them exercising their right to free speech. I do not believe that it is possible for an expression of free speech to be censorship.
  - dominotw 9y ago
    >GoDaddy and CloudFlare are not government. The Indian Government is. That's a large difference. I was just using that as an example. So according to you only govt can do censorship? Thats a definition you made up, not the definition in dictionary. I quoted the dictionary definition from the dictionary and it perfectly matches what google did. Can you tell me how am wrong precisely?
    - s73ver_ 9y ago
      I believe that only those who are obligated to assist or allow speech can do censorship. I don't believe that someone who has no obligation to aid or allow speech can. For example, if I throw away a flyer, that's not censorship.
      - dominotw 9y ago
        u refuse to answer the question. "how did what google did not fit the definition of censorship in a dictionary" . Definitions don't depend on one particular person's beliefs .

dominotw 9y ago

>Well, did GoDaddy and CloudFlare suppress the Daily Stormer? Yes they surpassed it on their platform. Censorship doesn't mean "make inaccessible to everyone on any platform". If you censor something on your own platform its still called censorship. It has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Indian govt censors kissing on movie screens but you can still go watch it on youtube. That doesn't mean what they are doing is not censorship, the govt entity that's responsible for it is actually called "censor board".

s73ver_ 9y ago
GoDaddy and CloudFlare are not government. The Indian Government is. That's a large difference. And I still don't believe what they did was censorship. That was them exercising their right to free speech. I do not believe that it is possible for an expression of free speech to be censorship.
- dominotw 9y ago
  >GoDaddy and CloudFlare are not government. The Indian Government is. That's a large difference. I was just using that as an example. So according to you only govt can do censorship? Thats a definition you made up, not the definition in dictionary. I quoted the dictionary definition from the dictionary and it perfectly matches what google did. Can you tell me how am wrong precisely?
  - s73ver_ 9y ago
    I believe that only those who are obligated to assist or allow speech can do censorship. I don't believe that someone who has no obligation to aid or allow speech can. For example, if I throw away a flyer, that's not censorship.
    - dominotw 9y ago
      u refuse to answer the question. "how did what google did not fit the definition of censorship in a dictionary" . Definitions don't depend on one particular person's beliefs .