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The only direction for a repressive, authoritarian regime is a completely homogenous society. Such a society, in turn, will be filled with its own brand of supr
by carlossilva33 9y ago
The only direction for a repressive, authoritarian regime is a completely homogenous society. Such a society, in turn, will be filled with its own brand of supremacists.
Case in point: Germany, 1933.
- pjc50 9y agoBanning scams is not "repressive" and the slippery slope is ridiculous.
- carlossilva33 9y agoThe slipery slope starts with starving websites of ad income[1], goes through arresting people for trolling[2] and God knows where it ends. Now in US they are trying to make companies like Facebook responsible for the content of the users[3], nevermind the new crazy EU law[4]. [1]https://www.recode.net/2017/1/25/14375750/google-adsense-advertisers-publishers-fake-news https://www.recode.net/2017/1/25/14375750/google-adsense-adv... [2]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/11627180/Five-internet-trolls-a-day-convicted-in-UK-as-figures-show-ten-fold-increase.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/116271... [3]https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180226/07321339304/section-230-isnt-about-facebook-about-you.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180226/07321339304/secti... [4]http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/remove-terror-content-in-1-hour-or-else-eu-warns-tech-giants http://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/remove-terror-conte...