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Unbelievable for me, an avid user of USENET in the 1980s who gloried in its sheer freedom to say anything, to see the tech world now cheerleading censorship. T
by tatrajim 6y ago
Unbelievable for me, an avid user of USENET in the 1980s who gloried in its sheer freedom to say anything, to see the tech world now cheerleading censorship.
The parallel to the steady stream of articles that disappear on Weixin daily in China is alarming.
- skavi 6y agodifferences in scale/societal impact.
- wmeredith 6y agoEh, USENET wasn’t a for profit company. Twitter is a private platform. It’s not censorship. They have no obligation to publish anything.
- tatrajim 6y agoThen as a private company let them take full, legal responsibility for their editorial decisions. No reason why the federal government should grant them special status to support a partisan business model.