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“Slippery slope” defined. Once you start deleting apps/speech, the requests and outrage become never-ending.
by pbreit 8y ago
“Slippery slope” defined. Once you start deleting apps/speech, the requests and outrage become never-ending.
- simple_phrases 8y agoRemove all content mentioned in a DMCA takedown request? Reasonable, not worth spending the money to go to court over. Remove an application that facilitates subjugation of human beings? That's going a little too far if you ask pbreit.
- krapp 8y ago>Once you start deleting apps/speech, the requests and outrage become never-ending. Apps are not speech, and apps have been deleted in the past, because Google has terms of service which can be violated. And yet, requests and outrage have not already become never-ending, therefore it is already demonstrably false that any attempt to delete an app must lead to never ending requests and outrage, because neither human beings nor society work that way. "slippery slope" seen for the empty concern trolling that it is.
- wnevets 8y agobut we're already removing apps we deem against our morals.
- stupidcar 8y ago"Slippery slope fallacy" defined. Simply agreeing to outlaw some things — child pornography, incitement to murder, violation of human rights — doesn't set you on an irreversible course to outlawing everything. Partial regulation by community consensus is a fundamental tenet of all human civilisation.
- pbreit 8y agoI think there's a big difference between opinion-driven censorship and legal-driven.
- morpheuskafka 8y agoWhat about the "slippery slope" of allowing apps that facilitate human rights violations by oppressive regimes, as long as the app's nexus to it is relatively minor?
- apostacy 8y agoWe're way past the slippery slope though. Google already is removing apps for completely frivolous reasons. They removed gab.com because some nazi trolls were using it, so that is the standard that Google has established. And by that standard, they are fine with the handmaiden app.
- anoncake 8y agoYou believe states have a right to free speech?
- qbaqbaqba 8y agoYeah, unless we are speaking about gab.