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You are kind of proving his point: you are narrowing the window of acceptable opinion not to merely exclude "kill all X" but to also forbid stances like "Big Te
by axiosgunnar 6y ago
You are kind of proving his point: you are narrowing the window of acceptable opinion not to merely exclude "kill all X" but to also forbid stances like "Big Tech helps advance US gov interests overseas“.
How can one not see the Orweillian direction this all seems to be taking?
- eyelidlessness 6y agoAh yes, the classic Orwell quote: “if you want a picture of the future, imagine a foot stamping on a human face that could voluntarily go somewhere else to post their nonsense without consequence—forever.”
- Fellshard 6y agoExcept it's been made quite clear now that no other alternatives will be accepted; even the slightest misstep or lack of proper curation and/or censorship of content, and you will be stripped of your ability to run your site.
- cecja 6y agoSlightest misstep LMAO look at the parler dump and search for hitler, kill, hang Pence/Romney/AOC/Pelosi and you find over THREE million hits. The hyperbole is on you or you are complicit in inciting violent action vs the president elect, the vice president, the senate and the house.
- 8note 6y ago"big tech helps advance us gov interests overseas" Is that supposed to be controversial? During the Arab Spring, everyone constantly talked about how big tech was helping people fight their dictators so those countries could become liberal democracy us allies
- boxmonster 6y agoThe Supreme Court ruled corporations are people. Do you let people say whatever they want about you in your blog (let's suppose you have one) So if somebody comes on my Facebook and writes that I'm a rapist and a murderer (falsely, for sure) I'm not supposed to block them?