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"Just build it yourself" is a common lie often used by people who either don't know of or don't care that even domain registrars and backbone internet providers
by 0xy 4y ago
"Just build it yourself" is a common lie often used by people who either don't know of or don't care that even domain registrars and backbone internet providers have been forced into censorship by activists.
Given you might be in a position where nobody will sell you bandwidth and nobody will register your domain name, "just build it yourself" becomes "just build an entire network infrastructure provider, domain registrar, hosting company and website". Don't forget that Parler, a relatively milquetoast 'free speech' website, was kicked off some pretty core internet infrastructure and was denied access by dozens of others. "Just build your own AWS and internet backbone!" is now your argument.
As others have pointed out, the pro-censorship activists generally also hypocritically support free speech when it comes to their issues -- such as forcing private businesses to bake cakes they disagree with, or forcing retail companies to stock books with certain themes.
- marcusverus 4y ago> As others have pointed out, the pro-censorship activists generally also hypocritically support free speech when it comes to their issues A few months ago I would have called the "pro-censorship" label hyperbole. The folks who support censorship on social media have a few decent, good-faith-sounding arguments in favor of censorship. The primary argument being something like "I'm not in favor of censorship, but censorship by corps isn't unconstitutional!". But as soon as it seemed clear that Elon would buy Twitter, the mask came off and those same people who claimed they weren't in favor of censorship were openly bemoaning the end of the pro-censorship regime.
- colejohnson66 4y ago> Don't forget that Parler, a relatively milquetoast 'free speech' website, was kicked off some pretty core internet infrastructure and was denied access by dozens of others. Parler[0] and Gab[1] are still alive and well. In other words, despite being kicked off, they still managed to survive. [0]: https://parler.com/ https://parler.com/ [1]: https://gab.com/ https://gab.com/