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commercial content distribution platforms _will_ fall victim to copyright and censorship in general. its already underway and most progressive ideas have to be
by samoa42 6y ago
commercial content distribution platforms _will_ fall victim to copyright and censorship in general. its already underway and most progressive ideas have to be expressed elsewhere.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoCapitalism has no trouble accommodating / subverting progressive ideas. It's the conservative ideas that tend to be silenced. EDIT : Also, interesting that the American right has moved from Twitter to not Mastodon, but to Parler instead : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25097145 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25097145 I wonder why ? Mastodon presenting itself as being too left-wing ? (Though make no mistake, a lot of the American right is 'conservative' only in name, and is instead wildly anti-conservative both in their speech as well as in their deeds.)
- BlueTemplar 6y agoJust learned about Gab 'invading' Mastodon : https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentr...