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Your ISP is a utility. Twitter is not. Your ISP cannot block you from hosting your own blog on your own servers. Even if your ISP did, there are places which wi
by ideals 6y ago
Your ISP is a utility. Twitter is not. Your ISP cannot block you from hosting your own blog on your own servers. Even if your ISP did, there are places which will allow you to host whatever you want. Alex Jones is still online for example. WikiLeaks is still online.
This argument is always about people complaining that they don't get to participate on the big platforms. But if there was so much demand for people shouting about racist loser shit online there would be a big platform for it. It's their responsibility to build it, not Twitter's
- daenz 6y ago>people shouting about racist loser shit This is exactly what I was talking about here[0]. You don't want a place to post freely to exist because you already have a preconceived idea of what people will say, and you are against that. This kind of attitude is hidden behind so many of the "but you can already do X, kinda" responses I've seen before in these discussions. Why not just lead by saying you don't think a government maintained platform for free speech should exist because you don't want to hear what people who want it would have to say? 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716909
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoI don’t have any problem with a government provided free speech platform. It would be an interesting experiment. But how are you going to get Congress to fund something that will host racists and pornographers?
- krapp 6y agoThe Republicans will allow the racists, and the Democrats will allow the pornographers. Done and done.