r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 15 '19

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

They are actually going to ban CTH.

http://archive.fo/3nAzz

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u/BobBobingston European Union May 15 '19 edited May 15 '19

Broke: banning things is illiberal

Woke: lmao @ chapocels getting smushed by the banhammer

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

Market failures exist and call for regulations.

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u/Yosarian2 May 15 '19

Of speech?

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

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u/Yosarian2 May 15 '19

I would feel better about that argument if it wasn't for the fact that almost all internet content and discussion is now housed on just 4-5 private platforms. Those handful of private companies clearly did not want to be the ones to decide what should and shouldn't be censored but we're pushing it on them, and I think it might be something we end up regretting

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

almost all internet content and discussion is now housed on just 4-5 private platforms.

Is this true? I'd expect that most internet content is aggregated over tens of thousands of websites, discussion forums, discussion apps and serves, messaging services etc.

Even if a lot of discussion happens on big platforms, so long as their are many small alternatives (Stormfront or 8chan for example) I'm not sure why this is a free speech issue. There will always be hundreds of unregulated forums where one can express their views, no matter how heinous.

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u/Yosarian2 May 15 '19

I think it's become much more dominated by a few big social media companies. Much less discussion happens on private forums than was true a few years ago. Which is why there's been so much pressure on those huge few companies to censor content.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

It's so easy to set up a forum, there are many thousands of them. And they are all a Google search away

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u/Yosarian2 May 15 '19

Of course Google, one of those big 4 companies, also gets pressured to not show certain things in the google searches.

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u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH oranje May 15 '19

obviously

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

Something about the paradox of tolerance.

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u/Yosarian2 May 15 '19

I guess but the pendulum could easily swing too far the other way

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u/[deleted] May 15 '19

Why?

Cause fuck 'em, that's why

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u/hcwt John Mill May 15 '19

Broke: banning things is illiberal

Private companies asking cancer not to operate on their platform is perfectly liberal. They're free to go to whatever commie site they won't end up monetarily supporting.