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About goddamn time. I am not on Trumps side on 99% of issues but this is absolutely needed. The platform-publishers have failed to police themselves, and have (
by anewdirection 6y ago
About goddamn time. I am not on Trumps side on 99% of issues but this is absolutely needed. The platform-publishers have failed to police themselves, and have (too) publicly played favorites lately.
Please, if you disagree, reply with why. Besides ad-hominem attacking the person, and if this particular incident is a good example (it is not), explain why fb/twit/etc deserve dual protections?
- uniqueid 6y ago> (too) publicly played favorites lately. So what? Why is that, of itself, bad? My view is that private companies should not host and enable content that makes the world a worse place to live. Places like Gab or Voat have their view of what is acceptable, and I disagree and condemn them for it. Places like HN have a code with which I largely agree, and I commend them for it. I neither expect, nor desire, companies like to twitter to provide "freedom of speech." Not with the internet and web we currently have, whose technical design overwhelmingly favors bad actors.
- FpUser 6y ago>"My view is that private companies should not host and enable content that makes the world a worse place to live." And who is to decide what makes the world a worse place?
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- Dylan16807 6y agoThe person doing the hosting.