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Not really. This is like a monopoly on paper. Sure, you can build your own press, but what are you going to use it for if you can't get paper to print on? Mayb
by lodovic 6y ago
Not really. This is like a monopoly on paper. Sure, you can build your own press, but what are you going to use it for if you can't get paper to print on?
Maybe freedom of speech went up, vertically, meaning more people can publish than ever before, but it got extremely narrow at the same time. If you publish the wrong thought your life or business can be literally destroyed within a day. (or as long as it takes to fly to Africa)
- IfOnlyYouKnew 6y agoParler would have never been a business. Because, for some reason, those gatekeepers weren't entirely terrible in keeping really obvious and obnoxious assholes far away from their printing presses. And let's be clear: nobody gets "literally destroyed", nor even figuratively, for publishing "one wrong thought". Parler had been peddling in low-effort violence-porn for the lowlifes that make up their userbase for what.. two years? That's hundreds of thousands of terrible... "thoughts". And nothing happened, until something happened, which happened to be peoples' deaths and a crisis of democracy. For comparison: reddit got into hot water at some point, and managed to clean up their act. The porn websites are in a similar process. It's all just actions-have-consequences, really. And the public's ire is actually the more nuanced, soft approach to do it, compared to the blunt tool of criminal law.
- beowulfey 6y agoNothing is stopping anyone from starting their own webhost. Free market economy etc.