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"In a sense, it doesn't really matter whether it's the government or a big corporation that performs automated censorship." It does matter. If it's a company d
by christophilus 9y ago
"In a sense, it doesn't really matter whether it's the government or a big corporation that performs automated censorship."
It does matter. If it's a company doing this, you still are free to run your own servers and say anything you want. If it's the government, you don't have that freedom. You can be jailed, fined, executed, exiled...
- quotemstr 9y ago> If it's a company doing this, you still are free to run your own servers and say anything you want The Daily Stormer recently had a different experience. Besides, when your entire life's infrastructure depends on an ecosystem of data services, being suddenly disconnected from that ecosystem is tantamount to banishment. That's definitely the kind of punishment that can discourage speech.
- thegayngler 9y agoIt really can. That's what it is supposed to do. However, some companies don't wish to associate with certain speech. That's as much their right to free speech as anyone else's right to free speech. You can create your own stuff and no one is stopping them. From a government perspective you have free speech. No business has to sponsor your speech if it offends them or hurts their business.