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> Instagram isn’t obligated to render text in their app in a way that you’d prefer. They are if we pass a law saying that they are. Suggesting such a law be pa
by User23 3y ago
> Instagram isn’t obligated to render text in their app in a way that you’d prefer.
They are if we pass a law saying that they are. Suggesting such a law be passed is just normal democracy.
- mannykannot 3y agoBy exactly the same argument, OP's "coordinated war against freedom of expression online" is also "just normal democracy."
- User23 3y agoNo, because that didn’t involve any sort of legislative action and is in fact clearly contrary to legislative intent.
- mannykannot 3y agoOn the contrary: yes, because that's irrelevant; the back-and-forth between disparate interests, and over interpretations of current legislation (and the constitution, for that matter), is just what normal democracy has that is lacking from other polities.
- User23 3y agoI don’t know what to say other than that is obviously and completely incorrect and anyone with even a cursory knowledge of history should know that.
- mannykannot 3y agoIt seems, then, that I am to be judged wrong just on your say-so, for no particular reason.
- akerl_ 3y agoI wouldn’t have made the reply I did if the post I replied to was advocating passing laws about social media platforms.