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This isn’t just censorship by a monopolist megacorp that operates a common carrier utility and the new digital town square. It’s also election interference and
by throwawaysea 5y ago
This isn’t just censorship by a monopolist megacorp that operates a common carrier utility and the new digital town square. It’s also election interference and campaigning. Democracy isn’t just what happens at the poll booth. It’s everything that happens earlier in the process. Shutting down one set of political voices and allowing others should be treated as illegal electioneering and a violation of campaign financing laws. After all I don’t see any such censorship being applied to BLM or antifa affiliated channels. They were allowed to use all the Silicon Valley platforms to coordinate and evangelize political violence throughout 2020 and continue to exist there today.
- thomassmith65 5y agothe new digital town square. If Youtube is a town square, it's a town square where sane people are unwelcome while morons and lunatics get a spotlight, megaphone and flyers. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29965813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29965813
- 8note 5y agoThe public square is still the public square. If you want a digital public square, you should put your tax dollars to building a public version of all these social media sites A corporate version is always going to prioritize profits over democracy, and is right to do so. It's their moral imperative
- throwawaysea 5y agoWe regulate many corporations in many ways and should do the same here.