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> and now we're down to cloud infrastructure providers and payment processors Payment processors have always been heavily restrictive about what they allow. T
by mcphage 6y ago
> and now we're down to cloud infrastructure providers and payment processors
Payment processors have always been heavily restrictive about what they allow. There have been articles talking about the hoops that OnlyFans has to jump through, for instance, because Stripe doesn't like pornography.
> just be prepared to move your goalposts when people start pressuring ISPs to block the content
Or search engines—like scihub and thepiratebay have had to deal with.
So we're already doing all of thee steps. In the end, it comes down to the same thing, though: what content should be blocked?
- moduspol 6y agoI think we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater by framing the argument that way. Possession and transmission of child pornography has always been illegal and technically an infringement on freedom of speech, but we carved an exemption for that because the negative effect on political speech is minimal. That does not imply it's always been open season on silencing political opponents.
- loceng 6y agoInciting violence has been carved out too. Your logic is incongruent.
- moduspol 6y agoIt has not previously been the case that using common political rhetoric like "fight like hell" was equivocated with "inciting violence," and we carved it out for law enforcment and courts to adjudicate--not private companies.