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Something so orwellian about a tech company censoring the speech of an elected president of a major country. Political speech should not be censored. Especiall
by dntbnmpls 7y ago
Something so orwellian about a tech company censoring the speech of an elected president of a major country.
Political speech should not be censored. Especially of elected officials. It should be regarded as part of the historical record at the very least.
- hrktb 7y agoWouldn't it be Orwellian if it was the elected president censoring/redacting people's tweet ? I'd be on board with Twitter on this one, hoping they use it as a precedent for dealing with the other living policy infringements they have on their platform.
- swebs 7y agoNo, they're both Orwellian. Censorship doesn't magically become OK just because it's done by a global megacorp instead of a govermnent.
- rbanffy 7y agoIt's their platform. They own it. It's not a public space and he's not entitled to use it for free to further his political agenda.
- Riverheart 7y agoA major part of 1984 was the Ministry of Truth spinning lies about reality. How do you square censorship against government spread of misinformation?
- krick 7y agoThis is not really news. I think what's really notable about all this... situation — is that a lot of stuff that was not ok only a short while ago, is perceived quite calmly by people, because.. well, "it's different", right? This is a serious thing. It's dangerous. You don't want to be dead, right? It is 9/11 of sorts. Maybe even worse, since you are specifically "not allowed" to question this, because doubting is assumed to be spreading dangerous misinformation. And it's not hard to sell censoring something that supposedly puts lives of your relatives in danger.
- verytrivial 7y agoRead much about how the Rwandan genocide started?