Tech watchdogs call on Facebook, Google for transparency around censored content

Re:Tech watchdogs call on Facebook, Google for transparency ... by s2g on Monday May 07, 2018 @06:42PM (#17017071)

What if I see it and I'm completely willing to accept that risk?

What if I'm willing to accept that the government suddenly turn into a dystopian authoritarian nightmare that tortures and murders my family in front of me, if we get rid of the right to own guns. I'm totally willing to accept that.

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Re:Tech watchdogs call on Facebook, Google for transparency ... by gnarbarian on Monday May 07, 2018 @08:58PM (#17017918)

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

-Ben Franklin

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Re:Tech watchdogs call on Facebook, Google for transparency ... by krapp on Monday May 07, 2018 @09:12PM (#17018004)

I'm sure you're aware that Ben Franklin was asking for more taxes to fund a stronger national defense against native American raids[0]. In other words, the "essential Liberty" he argued for was not liberty from the state, but the liberty of the state.

If you're going to use that quote to make some sort of anti-statist, pro revolutionary argument, fair enough, it's a good quote... that's just not at all what the person you're quoting was actually saying.

[0]https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/14/how-the-world-butchered-be...

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