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This is the new reality of the internet, best get used to it. Free speech is dead.
by rajacombinator 8y ago
This is the new reality of the internet, best get used to it. Free speech is dead.
- ajkjk 8y agoThis seems like the opposite of free speech being dead. A website shut down and you can just... go... make or use another one, anytime you like, without having to worry about it even being illegal.
- bredren 8y agoI also see this as a market opportunity for a startup to adapt / improve on tumblr and fill the void. An unexpected, and permanent content restriction on a major platform is a disruptive event.
- Apocryphon 8y agoYesterday's BitChute discussion [0] brought up the unfortunate fact that many ostensibly free-speech zone sites such as Voat and Gab just end up being havens for far right bigots and conspiracy theorists. Made me wonder if that toxic stew could be balanced if far left activists brigaded those platforms. With this story, it'd be even more amusing if amateur erotica creators and kink community people migrated from Tumblr to those places as well. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18583211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18583211
- bredren 8y agoInteresting thought experiment but based on my understanding of online community behavior I highly doubt erotica creators would go to a place already entrenched with Qanon believers. I do think they would jump to “the new tumblr” not owned by Verizon that has its own cool culture. Both consumers and creators like building stuff up.
- JBReefer 8y agoFar Right + Far Left !== somewhere good, you just get Reddit (or WW2). You need sane people to have sane conversations.
- Apocryphon 8y agoOh, I hardly think it'd be much more than a toxic cesspool. But at least it'd be a multipolar, interesting cesspool.
- wmeredith 8y agoWhat an ignorant comment. This isn't a free speech issue. The government isn't censoring down Tumblr. Its owners are.