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If you want freedom of the press, you should own the press. Today that may mean a distant web server or two, a printer, some paper, some ink. The samizdat was n
by mkempe 12y ago
If you want freedom of the press, you should own the press. Today that may mean a distant web server or two, a printer, some paper, some ink. The samizdat was not built on the shoulders of some corporate behemoth.
Wherever you may live, don't expect Facebook to be your agent for freedom. On the contrary.
- sigzero 12y agoI don't think anyone seriously thinks Facebook is an "agent for freedom".
- mkempe 12y agoThe point is that instead of countless people writing their thoughts in Facebook messages or status updates, because it feels easy and free, freedom would be better served by people owning blogs and other personal channels of expression.
- MichaelGG 12y agoIt's unlikely they'd be better served trying to learn how to host their own server and blog, deal with identity and spam issues, etc. I dislike FB, but don't kid yourself that it solves a lot of problems very well for a lot of people.
- anonymfus 12y agoYour own server has much bigger chances to be banned than popular site. Because banning Facebook, Google, or ever Github will cause outrage amongst people who never heard about you.
- raquo 12y agoNot so sure about that. Russian regulators normally don't care about tiny operations that don't influence the popular opinion. For example, there are lots of blogs talking trash about Putin and no one cares. But if you're as big as Google, you can't have "fuck Putin" on your front page. That usually leads to persecution for bullshit reasons like Navalny here.
- anonymfus 12y agohttps://antizapret.info/ https://antizapret.info/ See bunch of sites banned by Генпрокуратура since 21st of December? This is mostly personal blogs with posts about planned 15.01.2015 protests.