Re:Apple is removing Alex Jones and InfoWars’ podcasts from ...
by jhayward on Monday August 06, 2018 @03:42PM
(#17701015)
> By not upholding these values, Apple is stating that they disagree with free speech
No they are emphatically not, because Jone's screeds are not intended to be free speech as cherished by society.
They are acknowledging that society's norms can be weaponized against itself by those bent on power and destruction, and that tolerance of intolerance is incompatible with continued existence of the norms of free speech and tolerance. [1]
No they are emphatically not, because Jone's screeds are not intended to be free speech as cherished by society.
They are acknowledging that society's norms can be weaponized against itself by those bent on power and destruction, and that tolerance of intolerance is incompatible with continued existence of the norms of free speech and tolerance. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance