The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors

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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