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> I'm just saying that ultimately, the legislator makes the laws... Almost always when this debate is had, it's in the context of the US, where the First Amend

> I'm just saying that ultimately, the legislator makes the laws... Almost always when this debate is had, it's in the context of the US, where the First Amendment is a _hard_ stop against this sort of thing, but otherwise suggesting that the government have the final say over whatever you are allowed to say isn't historically a very popular suggestion. Of course, in other jurisdictions, they can pass whatever laws they want, and platforms can choose to comply, comply only locally, withdraw, or pay whatever fines to keep going as they are.

oauea 5y ago
Do you also think you should be able to freely share child pornography on HN as part of your free speech? Or is that not how it works at all?
- misnome 5y ago
  Do you think that the government should force HN to host child pornography and not remove it if someone uploads it? Or is that not how it works at all?
  - oauea 5y ago
    Of course not, the government is free to pass whatever laws regulating whatever kind of content is allowed, as they should and have been doing. What is your point again?
    - misnome 5y ago
      It should be easy to work out the point, if you weren't being completely disingenuous. The topic of forcing platforms to remove illegal content is completely, utterly different to the topic of forcing them to host content, whether illegal or otherwise. And in the US, the government is _not_ free to pass laws forcing platforms to host, or remove, non-illegal content, without explicitly coming into conflict with the first amendment.