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So is censoring good or bad? I'm confused.
by recursive 6y ago
So is censoring good or bad? I'm confused.
- starkd 6y agoThis is the pandora's box that has been opened up.
- olliej 6y agoIt really hasn’t been - Twitter, fb, etc have explicit tos disallowing calls for violence, harassment, etc and have just stopped letting prominent people get away with violating those rules.
- olliej 6y agoAn ISP is a dumb pipe, that’s the other side of their having access to utility poles and use of people land for their cables. Also the suspension/bans of individual people and groups for violating well established ToS by a private company, vs banning entire sites out of petulance with no actual grounds. The obvious follow up is for FB, et al to block the ISP so everyone switches to a different ISP.
- j_m_b 6y agoIt's all relative and very nuanced. It depends on which team you're on and whose being censored!
- jacobsenscott 6y agoCensoring is not good or bad. It is a tool. However, most people would consider this "bad".
- tfehring 6y agoI think mirroring free speech standards under the law is probably a good starting point - i.e., censoring is bad by default, but not all speech is protected, and calls for violence and insurrection are a relevant and timely example of non-protected speech. I'll reiterate that this should be a starting point, not necessarily a hard and fast rule - there may be more nuanced situations where the standards that are appropriate for the government are inappropriate for social networks. There's also the question of what levels of the stack it's appropriate for any censorship to occur at. Even if censorship of a particular class of speech is appropriate in general, it may not be appropriate for an ISP specifically to conduct that censorship.
- khyryk 6y agoDepends on how much they're paying you.
- snvzz 6y agoFreedom of speech has always been about allowing the people you don't like to say things you would prefer they did not. But society is losing sight of that.