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Doing actual actual crimes or committing a fraud using the phone, computer, fax, telex, or whatever other electronic means generally falls under wire fraud. Th
by ok123456 4y ago
Doing actual actual crimes or committing a fraud using the phone, computer, fax, telex, or whatever other electronic means generally falls under wire fraud.
The phone company doesn't de-platform "literal nazis" simply for being "literal nazis."
- lovich 4y agoYou are correct, but now you are getting into shades of grey more nuanced than > Either you believe in an open internet or you don't. Either you're with us, or you're against us.
- ok123456 4y agoThe distinction is between perfectly legal speech, and specific acts fraud or things that are direct, actionable, and credible threats to physical safety (e.g., bomb threats). This isn't a complicated blah blah, where we need a technocratic meta-god to put his thumb on the scales. The existing legal pre-computer legal frameworks cover these cases.
- Spivak 4y agoAnd if the literal nazis we’re actually using a private person to person (can be through a service) communication medium like a phone the number of people who want them deplatformed would drop to basically zero. Your argument has to account for the fact that Twitter is more like public radio than a phone and that WhatsApp is more like a phone than radio.
- EricDeb 4y agoTo be fair I do see articles written pointing to the fact that hate groups are using signal or discord, the implication being that such companies are "platforming" those groups.
- yibg 4y agoWhat happens if the literally nazis robo called thousands of people with nazi propaganda?