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> If you are only allowed to speak freely when noone can hear you No one? Hyperbole like this only serves to muddy the waters. Furthermore, I'm curious if tho
by bunderbunder 8y ago
> If you are only allowed to speak freely when noone can hear you
No one? Hyperbole like this only serves to muddy the waters.
Furthermore, I'm curious if those who believe that having access to social media needs to be considered a fundamental right really have the courage of their convictions: If this is the case, then we've got bigger problems than whether or not Milo Yiannopoulos can use it to act like a tool in public. There are whole classes of people who don't have easy access to the hardware and constant Internet connections required to take part, and their freedom of speech has clearly been curtailed. Perhaps there's a need to set up a social fund to ensure that their basic human rights are being preserved by buying them smartphones with data plans, and forcing the nation's cellular providers to extend coverage to every nook and cranny of the country.
- kristofferR 8y agoI'm not sure if you're joking or not, since the LifeLine program (nicknamed ObamaPhone by the right) has provided deeply government subsidized phone access since 1985 and cellular providers already are required to provide coverage to unprofitable, but inhabited areas.