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>The default response to any problem is now censorship and banning. No it isn't. That is to say, censorship and banning are less of a problem now than they've
by SantalBlush 7y ago
>The default response to any problem is now censorship and banning.
No it isn't. That is to say, censorship and banning are less of a problem now than they've been at any other time in US history.
- dmix 7y agoBeing better than centralized TV networks owned by a few billion dollar companies, likewise with the newspapers, is no excuse for modern corporations actions 2019. We have something special here where we can make a stand and protect our internet celebrities the same way we have if it wasn't on the internet. Far too many people are cynically willing to give it up either for political ends and ignore the early censorship by nation states believing both would be contained within a manageable subset and won't be both broaded used against legitimate dissents or openly abused to silence ideological opponents. This is the natural and predictable outcome, the conditional free speech policy thing doesn't when it faces the reality on the ground. And as I've said multiple times today this has nothing to do with how discourse is moderated on internet forums. The rules of civil discourse in individual communities is much more flexible than defining it purely on the loudest complainers political redlines.
- SantalBlush 7y ago>This is the natural and predictable outcome No it isn't. This is alarmism.
- dmix 7y agoIt's already happened repeatedly and there's plenty of historical evidence it will only expand. Enjoy the utopia at gun point approach to a better society.
- SantalBlush 7y agoTo say that censorship at gunpoint is a bigger problem now than it's been in the past is revisionism. I can say way more things without consequence now than I could have said 100 years ago.