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The link you provided talks about censorship on forums etc. That happens on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. every day. ISPs no longer own most of the social med
by smsm42 9y ago
The link you provided talks about censorship on forums etc. That happens on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. every day. ISPs no longer own most of the social media, but I'm not sure how the same kind of censorship is ok now (in fact, Congress just severely criticized Facebook and Twitter for doing not enough of it and allowing Russians to publish their opinions about US matters on these sites) but exactly the same censorship was not ok then? Cases of ISPs refusing hosting and other similar services are known and widely lauded. Of course, that was not because it was about censorship, but because Nazis were the ones being censored, but censorship as a principle has been accepted, and the question now is only who you can censor. And as you can know, there's no shortage of people who would declare everybody who doesn't agree with them literally Hitler and demand to censor them. Either we accept this is ok and the competition will take care of it, or we say the state must intervene and stop it - but we can't say both depending on how the company doing it is called.