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This will inevitably lead to 1984 style censorship. The next 5 things censored en mass will all be "objectionable", but then finally something good, normal or s
by RobertRoberts 8y ago
This will inevitably lead to 1984 style censorship. The next 5 things censored en mass will all be "objectionable", but then finally something good, normal or simply against the orthodoxy of the day will be censored that no average person would object to.
But then it will be too late, because everyone supported censoring ideas they simply didn't like being spread.
Then it will be against the law to object to anything that is official censored.
- matthewmacleod 8y agoYour alternative suggestion then? All services are required to carry all content, regardless of their owner’s views?
- sathishmanohar 8y agoOr make owner-less decentralized platforms where a few humans can't be coerced into cherry picking content to fit a particular agenda.
- matthewmacleod 8y agoYeah, you’ve just created a global child pornography network.
- sathishmanohar 8y agoThanks for displaying Ad hominem 101 !
- matthewmacleod 8y agoI think you might need to look up the meaning of that, pal. The point is – a globally decentralised publishing network also has obvious, quite possibly terminal, problems.
- RobertRoberts 8y agoI don't have a good one. Private companies can do what they like. And this will not end well for people, because the government doesn't have to censor any more that loophole has been by-passed. The problem is when corporations convince the populace to agree to censor information that is damaging to their profits, and we buy it.
- matthewmacleod 8y agoI don’t understand the complaint. These people are free to spread their misinformation elsewhere.
- RobertRoberts 8y agoGoFundMe's actions are part of a trend, the specifics of this one business are really not the issue.
- tombert 8y agoGoFundMe is under no obligation to platform people that they do not agree with. If I had a crowdfunding site, I wouldn't platform anti-vaxxers either. If the anti-vaxxers don't feel that they have a good platform to raise money, they are welcome and encouraged to make their own.
- RobertRoberts 8y agoYou are absolutely correct. They don't have to do anything they don't want to. But do you really believe this is the only thing they will censor? This is a canary dying, it's indicative of the problems that are coming, and it's going to be more and more censorship, until finally you object to something for real. But because you didn't defend other's speech, there will be nothing left to do.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> But do you really believe this is the only thing they will censor? This is how free societies work. Everyone has the freedom to assemble--and not assemble--with whomever they choose. We have protected classes for lines one cannot draw. But an essential part of democracy, going back to the Athenians, is the public's freedom to associate--and transact--with people of their choosing, and being able to associate--or not associate--on the basis of political views.
- RobertRoberts 8y agoI get it, and I agree. But it's unevenly applied set of rules that I take issue with. Other businesses censored their products but because it was something the masses didn't want censored, that business was mercilessly attacked.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> it's unevenly applied set of rules There are no rules. That’s freedom of assembly. GoFundMe is free not to do business with anti-vaxxers. You are free not to do business with them for that decision. Everyone decides what matters to them and acts on it to their own accordance. When there is consensus, it cascades and may even prompt the creation of a new protected class.