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I used to be hardcore freedom of speech believer. I believed data, truth, and logic will always win. Then I met people. Seriously, when I lived in my bubble wi
by nodhdhdhdh 6y ago
I used to be hardcore freedom of speech believer. I believed data, truth, and logic will always win. Then I met people.
Seriously, when I lived in my bubble with fellow geeks, it seemed nothing was worse than censorship. I think a censorship by a government is still wrong.
But think like this, in social situations, people stop inviting assholes to their homes. And if they don't stop, then other guests start to avoid that host. So why cannot businesses avoid shitty businesses. Is it really censorship if your local coffeeshop won't let you put a your band's flyer with sexual images? Is it censership if you brother don't want you to bring up some controversial topic at a dinner party?
I would not want to do a business with Amazon if Amazon was openly doing business with ISIS. Not many people would like their business partners to be Nazis.
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- theflyinghorse 6y agoI hear your argument. However there is a lot of grey area when it comes to defining "shitty", and some business have far too much power over our everyday life. For instance imagine if financial institutions would ban you for your political views (let's say you support very tight regulation of credit card companies and are vocal about it), good luck functioning in a modern society without credit cards.
- bluesign 6y agoYeah I understand your point but your examples are a bit off. Some time ago, people were avoiding black people from their establishments, because otherwise their customers start to avoid that establishment. With your logic they did nothing wrong. But actually they did. Then we invented protected classes, cause we couldn’t manage to say, if you are providing a service to public, you should provide everyone. It is much more complicated then your asshole guest example in reality.