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Re:The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors by imgabe on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:52PM (#15240114)
We censor spam without a second thought and that's only advertisement. Some may be outright illegal scams, but some is surely offering a legitimate service, just in an annoying way. Free speech doesn't grant you a right to use privately owned infrastructure for anything you want.
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Re:The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors by dtech on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:04PM (#15240256)
You have to actively opt-in to spamfilters/advertisement blockers though, or at the very least can opt-out (e.g. look into your spambox).
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Re:The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors by detaro on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:22PM (#15240448)
Internet companies remove users posting spam all the time.
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Re:The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:53PM (#15240751)
The act of spamming people is, in fact, illegal. Having an opinion isn't.
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Re:The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors by intopieces on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @03:29PM (#15241733)
Let’s be careful not to conflate legal with ethical. It could very easily be legal to censor all hate speech (Canada and UK have these laws). And I mean government censorship, not we-don’t-want-to-do-business-with-you-censorship.
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Re:The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:33PM (#15242321)
I was very explicitly speaking of "legal". With acts like the CAN-SPAM Act, a lot of spam is, in fact, illegal, and it isn't by any stretch a restriction of free speech for an infrastructure provider to shut down someone sending illegal spam.
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Re:The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors by imgabe on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @05:13PM (#15242750)
The fact that it's illegal, that is, the government has outlawed that form of speech, renders it very clearly a free speech restriction.
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Re:The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors by detaro on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:54PM (#15240773)
Is it? e-mail spam yes, I don't think posting advertising on websites or social media is per se - still companies act against it if it doesn't meet their own thresholds.
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