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Just because the U.S. and Britain fails to care about free speech and human rights doesn't mean that the battle is not worth fighting. This tax is in direct op
by arghwhat 8y ago
Just because the U.S. and Britain fails to care about free speech and human rights doesn't mean that the battle is not worth fighting.
This tax is in direct opposition to free speech, so opposing it defends free speech. It is, however, only a single battle in a very long war.
- lostlogin 8y agoBut the companies hit own the forums, and don’t support free speech. I agree that it’s a potentially slippery slope for regulation, but it’s not currently an area where free speech is tolerated. Just yesterday Zuckerberg was apologising for censoring inappropriately. I don’t have a strong view either way, I’m just not convinced that the ‘free speech’ aspect is as direct as you state. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/05/facebook-censors-americas-declaration-independence-hate-speech/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/05/facebook-censors...
- arghwhat 8y agoNo one cares about the hit Facebook takes from having social media blocked. In fact, I'd rather have them crash and burn. The problem is that the citizens get access to all social media taken away through taxes that most would avoid. Social media is also Twitter, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Snapchat, WeChat, Weibo, QQ, ... It is not suddenly okay to block free speech by limiting/removing access to social media, just because one of these social media are known to censor content in other ways. One crime does not justify the next.