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Care to explain why your hackernews profile says "Censors have never been on the right side of history" ?

• busterarm 5y ago
  That's not censorship. I'm not out celebrating when a country like Turkey or something blocks Twitter. No, I'm advocating the Amish approach. It's perfectly reasonable and noble for a society to get together and decide "we're not going to use X". There's nothing censorial about that. It's the same kind of logic people use to advocate against things like ICEs and eating meat. Are vegans trying to "censor" your meat-eating? No. It's the same kind of reasoning behind us having _any_ laws to begin with. And I'm not even talking about blocking Twitter. I'm saying that legislatively we should make sure that no company with a product like it can do business in our country(-ies). The same way that we have laws in place that prevent companies from business practices like "dumping toxic waste next to your housing development" under threat of force (like we will fine you to hell and back and then throw you in prison). Is that censorship too? Come back with a more thoroughly-reasoned argument, please.
  • ryan93 5y ago
    I need a thoroughly reasoned argument? You are comparing twitter to physical toxic waste.