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The people who oppose free speech always try to redefine it this way. Freedom of speech is freedom from censorship or moderation. Not freedom from discomfort
by hellfish 4y ago
The people who oppose free speech always try to redefine it this way.
Freedom of speech is freedom from censorship or moderation. Not freedom from discomfort
- pixl97 4y agoLike the discomfort from being banned from someones private property from saying dumb crap?
- at-w 4y agoLike Comcast deciding they don't want workers discussing unionizing using the internet infrastructure that they privately own. Or financial institutions like PayPal freezing and seizing your money on their "private property" because of speech they don't like. Or when AWS, Microsoft, and the largest and most powerful corporations in human history coordinated to take a separate social network offline because of speech they didn't like. Or when Twitter and Facebook coordinated to falsely label a true story "Russian disinformation" days before an election, literally preventing people from sharing it with each other privately on the world's largest communications networks. Whether Hunter Biden smoking crack with prostitutes would impact the election, or is even anyone's business, is questionable to me. But so is having billionaire tech CEOs decide what people can discuss through private communications with the express intent of suppressing information related to a political campaign. The same goes for credit card monopolies like VISA and Mastercard coordinating to destroy businesses like Mindgeek because of moralist outrage from another "side."