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Free speech has nothing to do with whether a website chose to join an international sanction. The actual censorship is Putin's 15 year punishment for news he d
by JohnHaugeland 5y ago
Free speech has nothing to do with whether a website chose to join an international sanction.
The actual censorship is Putin's 15 year punishment for news he doesn't like.
I wish enough of HN understood free speech at a level to pass a test in 8th grade that we would embarrass one another when getting things this wrong.
It really hampers our ability to function in the real world, the way we reject any constraint involving text and then say "but muh free speech"
This isn't intelligent or correct
- rasengan 5y agoOh, I thought it was the blanket ban on Russian news by the EU.
- JohnHaugeland 5y agoThat's also not censorship. Censorship is when *an individual is told by a government that they may not publish*. A government telling another government that they can't broadcast in the first government's space is something really quite different.
- imwillofficial 5y agoWhen governments + corporations team up, your lines of distinction are meaningless.
- JMS2021 5y agoCorrect. Elon Musk has said he will ignore EU law and not block Russian internet on StarLink.