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Exactly. Governments shouldn't be drawing these lines but someone needs to and corporations are a good choice. If people don't like it they can vote with their

Exactly. Governments shouldn't be drawing these lines but someone needs to and corporations are a good choice. If people don't like it they can vote with their dollars. If companies make the wrong move their business will suffer, so they're incentivized to do the popular thing at least. If the wrong thing becomes popular to the majority, then we're all screwed anyway.

slowmovintarget 8y ago
> ...corporations are a good choice. Wow is that not true. Corporate entities only have a profit incentive. They are by their nature divorced from morality and the philosophy and ethics of freedom. When unrestricted, corporations force people into indentured servitude. Corporations used child labor, until they were forced not to. The freedom to exchange ideas is the most extraordinary and valuable freedom humans have. This is why we absolutely do not trust it to popular opinion either. Corporations handed control of that freedom would filter and twist expression until only those ideas that profit the corporations are left. We've already seen this in action. The mildest examples are gag orders from lawsuit settlements, suppression of medical research, suppression of safety testing... It's why we have whistle-blower laws. Corporations would be a terrible choice.
- everdev 8y ago
  Well let's look at our options: 1. Government - Not a great track record on limiting fringe speech, it seems to descend into totalitarian objectives 2. Institutions/Churches - Not a great track record of tolerating logical speech that is inconsistent with their beliefs 3. Corporations - Capitalism is the best process we've found for spreading freedom of choice. Nothing is ever perfect, but when 1 & 2 fail to do it right it's catastrophic. When 3 messes up, they lose their own shirts and the damage is more contained.
  - slowmovintarget 8y ago
    "Limiting fringe speech" is censorship. I'd rather no one did it. Instead, air it out, discredit it if it is wrong. When people are forced to stop talking they resort to violence, in the same manner that other species in the animal kingdom handle their disputes. Let people talk.
    - inawarminister 8y ago
      There's a great quote about this from POTUS JFK "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy

slowmovintarget 8y ago

> ...corporations are a good choice. Wow is that not true. Corporate entities only have a profit incentive. They are by their nature divorced from morality and the philosophy and ethics of freedom. When unrestricted, corporations force people into indentured servitude. Corporations used child labor, until they were forced not to. The freedom to exchange ideas is the most extraordinary and valuable freedom humans have. This is why we absolutely do not trust it to popular opinion either. Corporations handed control of that freedom would filter and twist expression until only those ideas that profit the corporations are left. We've already seen this in action. The mildest examples are gag orders from lawsuit settlements, suppression of medical research, suppression of safety testing... It's why we have whistle-blower laws. Corporations would be a terrible choice.

everdev 8y ago
Well let's look at our options: 1. Government - Not a great track record on limiting fringe speech, it seems to descend into totalitarian objectives 2. Institutions/Churches - Not a great track record of tolerating logical speech that is inconsistent with their beliefs 3. Corporations - Capitalism is the best process we've found for spreading freedom of choice. Nothing is ever perfect, but when 1 & 2 fail to do it right it's catastrophic. When 3 messes up, they lose their own shirts and the damage is more contained.
- slowmovintarget 8y ago
  "Limiting fringe speech" is censorship. I'd rather no one did it. Instead, air it out, discredit it if it is wrong. When people are forced to stop talking they resort to violence, in the same manner that other species in the animal kingdom handle their disputes. Let people talk.
  - inawarminister 8y ago
    There's a great quote about this from POTUS JFK "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy