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> By and large what “isn’t allowed” on major tech platforms is racist, xenophobic, and homophobic content. That's such a naive and ignorant viewpoint. Everythi

> By and large what “isn’t allowed” on major tech platforms is racist, xenophobic, and homophobic content. That's such a naive and ignorant viewpoint. Everything which one doesn't agree with suddenly doesn't become racist, xenophobic, and homophobic content. Post from an hour ago: > Somali feminist: Facebook is being used to silence me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28452991 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28452991 Another one from 2 months ago: > The blackout Palestinians are facing on social media: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27645282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27645282 From yesterday: > The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443244 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28443244 Facebook and IG also banned the mother of one of the soldiers who died in Afghanistan last week. Even women who are against biological men competing in their sports are getting silenced under the label of "transphobia." One only get to understand what censorship feels like when it comes for them.

reginold 5y ago
Thanks for saying this with examples. People sure seem to be afraid of their own thoughts if they feel the need to limit speech of others. Must be a hard way to live. And certainly makes life hard for your examples.
DoctorOW 5y ago
These are all from big corporate entities either making (admittedly terrible) mistakes, or using the precedent of those mistakes to hide. These are problems systemically fixed by having human moderators not dependent on ad revenue. > One only get to understand what censorship feels like when it comes for them. This looks like you were starting to write "First they came for the" and then realized the next word was "socialists".
- busymom0 5y ago
  They already are coming for anti establishment socialists- Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald etc for example. Anti establishment Tulsi Gabbard got her ad campaign censored too. Right now it just happens to be the case that majority of the censorship is happening on the right but that’s not to mean that anti establishment voices on the left aren’t getting censored.

reginold 5y ago

Thanks for saying this with examples. People sure seem to be afraid of their own thoughts if they feel the need to limit speech of others. Must be a hard way to live. And certainly makes life hard for your examples.

DoctorOW 5y ago

These are all from big corporate entities either making (admittedly terrible) mistakes, or using the precedent of those mistakes to hide. These are problems systemically fixed by having human moderators not dependent on ad revenue. > One only get to understand what censorship feels like when it comes for them. This looks like you were starting to write "First they came for the" and then realized the next word was "socialists".

busymom0 5y ago
They already are coming for anti establishment socialists- Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald etc for example. Anti establishment Tulsi Gabbard got her ad campaign censored too. Right now it just happens to be the case that majority of the censorship is happening on the right but that’s not to mean that anti establishment voices on the left aren’t getting censored.