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I think the idea of a pure free speech space is great in theory, but probably impracticable. Could I post as much as I want? Do bots that I authored, posting o
by sixstringtheory 7y ago
I think the idea of a pure free speech space is great in theory, but probably impracticable.
Could I post as much as I want? Do bots that I authored, posting on my behalf, count as my own speech? What if I effectively DDoS the system, will I be censored then? Preventing DDoS is essentially censorship, even though the DDoS is also essentially censorship of others by preventing them from being heard at all. It’s like the paradox of tolerance.
It reminds me of a “free speech wall” in a city I used to live in. At some point all writing on that wall becomes unreadable due to volume. It was also regularly wiped clean.
With FB we’re talking about psychological DDoS of truth, instead of infrastructural DDoS of information.