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People don’t claim companies can’t censor things. They claim that you can’t have your first amendment rights violated by a private organization. Censorship woul
by mvid 7y ago
People don’t claim companies can’t censor things. They claim that you can’t have your first amendment rights violated by a private organization. Censorship would be part of a first amendment violation, but the two are not equivalent
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- aaron695 7y ago> They claim that you can’t have your first amendment rights violated by a private organization. This is simply not true at all. Anyone outside of the US doesn't have the first amendment, for a start. Feel free to browse through OP posts where people reply with XKCD 1357, one of the few really bad XKCD's. They consistently reply when OP doesn't mention the first amendment, HN is exactly the same as people on Facebook or Twitter. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F1357%2F&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- ThrowawayR2 7y agoNope. I've had plenty of progressives try to tell me that it's only censorship if the government does it.
- slavik81 7y ago> People don’t claim companies can’t censor things. I did a quick search because I recalled seeing that in the past. It's certainly not the prevailing consensus, but people do make that claim. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18676417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18676417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19929107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19929107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9967543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9967543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2500298 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2500298