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It's codified censorship.
by duringmath 3y ago
It's codified censorship.
- rpastuszak 3y agoHow do you mean?
- DoItToMe81 3y agoIt allows hosts on every level to be criminally charged for user content. It has come with a backdrop of powerful interests pushing for cross-border takedowns in the EU. It suggests allowing copyright enforcement firms and NGOs to arbitrarily take down content and the legal protection against abuse is intentionally written vaguely and open endedly.
- throwaway154 3y agoTime is finite. Censorship is already in place by those that seek to use yours. Whether this is 'better' is the debate. But that you a person is a product who's manipulation of is current is not. The new current is that of false agency.
- malermeister 3y agoThat's quite a take, can you back it up in any way?
- duringmath 3y agoWell it's the textbook definition of censorship i.e government deciding the content media platforms are allowed to publish/carry.
- beebeepka 3y agoI am not sure that's the case here. Also, has there ever been a time without censorship. Please keep in mind I am not interested in shallow right wing ideology crap. Big boys/gals always censor. Otherwise they wouldn't be big
- duringmath 3y agoThe difference is companies used to decide what piece of content to nuke now it's the government doing it which is a big no-no.
- beebeepka 3y ago[flagged]
- malermeister 3y agoSo instead of a private, unaccountable censor you now have a democratically elected one? How is that worse?
- duringmath 3y agoGovernment can put you in jail this is not a slope we want to grease. Private "censorship" is localized and fairly harmless.
- malermeister 3y ago> Private "censorship" is localized and fairly harmless. That, again, is a bold claim with nothing to back it up. Here's an example of private censorship with a political motivation: https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-leaked-internal-message-suggests-musk-ordered-leftwing-account-freeze-2023-1 https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-leaked-internal-mess... Nobody elected Musk, and yet he just autocratically controls a major medium of communication now, with no democratic control mechanisms in place. Better not upset the owning class or you, too, will be silenced!
- duringmath 3y agoIs this supposed to be a counter example? These actions are localized to twitter and afaik no one has gone to prison for it. Like it or not (and I don't) Twitter is Musk's property, it's his 44B toy and he can break it if he wants.
- dekken_ 3y agoOr, advertising is harassment.