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If something is bad when a government does it, surely it's also bad if a really large company does it. Come to think of it, why would it be bad if a government
by wisty 5y ago
If something is bad when a government does it, surely it's also bad if a really large company does it.
Come to think of it, why would it be bad if a government censors speech?
- psyc 5y agoI’ve come to the conclusion that there is probably no universally compelling answer to that. I think you either hold individual liberty sacred as a sort of deontological pillar, or you try to get clever about minmaxing this nebulous “society” thing I’m always hearing about, moving toward a shared utopia one “we should ban…” proposal at a time.
- tomnipotent 5y ago> why would it be bad if a government censors speech? Because government has a monopoly on violence.
- FeepingCreature 5y agoI don't see how that relates at all.
- bolangi 5y agoThe distinction between government and big business (what an archaic expression!) is artificial, and doesn't exist in practice.
- Qu3tzal 5y agoIt does, governments can pass laws, big businesses can't. They may buy politicians to pass the laws for them but in the end they can't pass the laws themselves.
- FeepingCreature 5y agoBig businesses can pass terms of service, which are functionally identical.
- tomnipotent 5y agoThis is ridiculous. I'm not worried about businesses telling me who I can marry, where I can live, or what jobs I can have.
- swiley 5y agoThey absolutely would if it made them money.
- tomnipotent 5y agoWhich doesn't happen without what large organized body of people to approve or condone it?
- swiley 5y agoAll they have to do is convince everyone to do what their phone says, they've already done that with video.
- josefx 5y agoYou really should be. Quite a few of the larger companies have been caught conspiring to manipulate wages and workplace mobility for their own gain, in ways that not only hurt every work seeking person in the affected area, but where also flat out illegal. Then lets not ignore the fact that most countries had to make laws specifically to protect working parents. There are most likely entire warehouses filled with court cases over a business owner realizing that statistically hiring a non married replacement for the recently married employee will be better. They wont do it out of racism, they wont do it out of religious fervor. However they will do whatever they can to make more money.
- CRConrad 5y ago
- CRConrad 5y ago> big business (what an archaic expression!) Huh?!? It's perfectly ordinary and contemporary English.
- 6510 5y ago> why would it be bad if a government censors speech? Its a step in the wrong direction. The next step is to forbid asking that question. Step 3 is war to get our rights back. 2 and 3 may take time. Say 6 years for 2 and 1000 years for 3. 1000 years of blaming the witches, the socialists, the unionists, the jew, the Muslim, the Chinese, the Russians and of course you! If you were defending the governments right to censor speech you were useful in installing it. When the censorship is accepted by the masses you become someone known to publicly share an opinion about a forbidden topic. Presenting the question for others to answer the way you just did is much worse than having your own opinion. If we allow people like that, before we know it, we have people questioning everything!