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Censorship alone is not evil. The problem is, once you have infrastructure in place to make it easy, it will be abused. And if that infrastructure is centralize
by 0xBA5ED 8y ago
Censorship alone is not evil. The problem is, once you have infrastructure in place to make it easy, it will be abused. And if that infrastructure is centralized, the stakes for abuse are much higher. It's the same old problem of "who regulates the regulators". Rather than the issue being about "censorship bad / free speech good", I think the heart of it is: There's simply a lack of confidence that tech giants like Google are part of a larger system with checks and balances, and they appear to be making unilateral decisions behind closed doors.
- raxxorrax 8y ago> Censorship alone is not evil. Restricting access to information generally is until a good reason is given. That could be the protection of personal information for example. But without justification I would heavily disagree with that statement.
- 0xBA5ED 8y agoI'll point out that I didn't say "Censorship without justification is not evil."
- princekolt 8y agoThere seems to be justification though. If a "news" website is constantly publishing stories that are objectively false, or based on some factual event but distorted beyond any verifiable aspect, then Google has the right (and I'd argue the duty) to remove that content from its platform, especially if that content is targeted at individuals.