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There aren't any public platforms to voice opinions, so if you are cancelled from private platforms, then you are essentially silenced into submission. In my op
by ksk 6y ago
There aren't any public platforms to voice opinions, so if you are cancelled from private platforms, then you are essentially silenced into submission. In my opinion, it's worse if the government is not involved, you can at-least vote the current government out.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 6y agoThere are certainly public platforms to voice opinions, but they are just as certainly drowned out by or hidden from the rest of the platforms. Independent, peer to peer social media, for example, “dark web”, or just plain old WWW / Gopher /forums discovered without the private search platforms. On one level, it isn’t that there aren’t public platforms, it’s that the market for public speech is a niche market that isn’t really bought into by the public.
- netsharc 6y agoI wonder if there's money to be made in selling a search engine to a government (of a country that cares about free speech, obviously). Or to look it the other way, if there is a job to be had by marketing the idea/yourself to a government agency. And the government might do it to sell goodwill to the users, imagine having "This search engine is provided to you by Elbonia. Click here to learn more about Elbonia. Click here to find flights to Elbonia" at the bottom of every search result page.
- ksk 6y ago>Independent, peer to peer social media, for example, “dark web”, or just plain old WWW / Gopher /forums discovered without the private search platforms. Those are still private platforms. With enough pressure you can get an ISP to cancel someones service, or get a domain service/hosting provider to cancel them, etc, etc.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 6y agoElectricity is a private platform too, so by your argument, with enough pressure you could get a utility to cancel the power for a public platform.
- ksk 6y agoNo that is not my argument at all.