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As someone who leans right wing.... I have 0 trust in these types of institutions. They overwhelmingly have views that are aligned directly with the far left an
by pyronik19 5y ago
As someone who leans right wing.... I have 0 trust in these types of institutions. They overwhelmingly have views that are aligned directly with the far left and they seem to exercise their authority when given it to further their own political objectives. Take the SPLC which is used by some tech platforms to decide who to censor. They wield their power to label people as white supremacist to get them banned not because they are in any reasonable persons view based on evidence have said or done things that are clearly racist.... but its just the labeling of an enemy to fit narrative. We don't need censorship with extra steps... we need free speech.
- HideousKojima 5y agoSee also the SPLC labeling people like Maajid Nawaz and Ayaan Hirsi Ali "anti-Muslim extremists."
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- barbacoa 5y agoYears back a Colorado bakery refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding, the resulting lawsuit ended up going all the way up to the supreme court. The law firm that represented the baker is now officially labeled as a anti gay hate group by the splc.
- antonzabirko 5y agoWhat's the alternative? Anything private and you risk for-profit suppression just like we have now. Removing moderation is not an option imo.
- reedjosh 5y ago> Anything private You don't have to support. The government will take your support at gunpoint. This is the crux of the issue.
- antonzabirko 5y agoWhat does it matter what you support though? Case in point: twitter, fb, reddit, so on
- reedjosh 5y agoI don't have to be there, and my dollars don't go to these corps. I don't understand your point. I'm not on either of those platforms, so they're not shipping me ads. I do what I can to be private, so that their data mining doesn't get me. I have that choice. Unfortunately if I don't agree with what my government is doing, they'll still take my tax dollars and fight forever wars with them.
- antonzabirko 5y agoBasically it doesn't matter if you support them because most speech happens on those platforms and you are suppressed from there. Sure you can go elsewhere, but that doesn't work when you need to reach out to others.
- jjoonathan 5y ago> They overwhelmingly have views that are aligned directly with the far left Your president repeatedly advocated for having journalists with opposing views shot.
- rscoots 5y agoWhen did this happen? Genuinely curious
- jjoonathan 5y agoRepeatedly, at the 2020 rallies. After the applause died down, he would follow up his very sincere trial balloon with a much less sincere "just kidding." Find a clip, decide for yourself if it's a trial balloon or a genuine funny joke, but either way it's pretty damning from a freedom of speech angle. He has also repeatedly expressed a similar sentiment in other forms, like open admiration for oppressive regimes' control over the media.
- Igelau 5y ago> Find a clip, decide for yourself The onus is on you to back up that claim.
- jjoonathan 5y agoThe onus is on me to the extent that it's in doubt. I was hoping it wouldn't be, since it made the rounds thoroughly enough at the time to shift the counter-discourse from "that never happened!" to "it happened, but it wasn't a problem, because it was just a joke." I guess I'll have to spend more time wading through the cesspool of political youtube. I spent 15 minutes trying to track it down and couldn't find it. It is buried under at least three incidents with similar search terms since last year, but two of them could have had attenuating circumstances and one of them is second hand, so none of them are as singularly indefensible as the statements he made on the campaign trail about having journalists shot. If I get some more time I'll go digging again.
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