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When people believe that suppressing speech is the correct course of action, there's really no telling where it ends.
by brightball 7y ago
When people believe that suppressing speech is the correct course of action, there's really no telling where it ends.
- mtgx 7y agoTrue. The recent trend of regular people demanding online platforms to remove "fake news" or other offending content has been quite worrisome, mainly because we don't know where it will end. The US government is already trying to take advantage of this by conflating the encryption debate with the content moderation debate. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191007/00022343132/doj-is-conflating-content-moderation-debate-with-encryption-debate-dont-let-them.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191007/00022343132/doj-i...