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But they're not closing the websites - they're preventing people in the UK from accessing them. To work with your analogy - this is like intercepting a shipmen
by car_analogy 4y ago
But they're not closing the websites - they're preventing people in the UK from accessing them.
To work with your analogy - this is like intercepting a shipment of newspapers, and blacking out any ads placed in them by criminals. Regardless of what the ads say - they're criminals, why should they be entitled to say "I'm innocent"?
Sorry - why should they be entitled to printing press amplify their voice. They can just scream in their cells - their free speech isn't being curtailed.
Who knows, maybe it is too dangerous to let them speak - but at least have the honesty to call it what it is - censorship.
- simonh 4y agoIt's like banning anyone in the UK ordering things from the Maffia in Italy, and it happens that one of the businesses the Maffia operates is a newspaper, so you're banned from importing it. Being a publisher isn't an end run around the rest of the law.
- car_analogy 4y ago> ordering [..] importing [..] So block financial transactions with the sanctioned entities - problem solved. Unless your real intent isn't blocking money, but speech.
- simonh 4y agoThese people profit from the operation of these sites, or many of them anyway, that’s what is being targeted. Even in the case of a publishing site advertising revenue due to page impressions is a legitimate target.