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Re:GitLab is now running on GCP by clairity on Saturday August 11, 2018 @05:45PM (#17741738)
freedom of speech only applies to governmental entities. private businesses and individuals are not restricted similarly.

freedom of speech does not keep someone from thinking you (not you specifically, but the general you) are an idiot or a kook, nor does it protect you from the consequences of your words by those other individuals (obviously other laws protect you from intentional physical harm and the like). nothing can compel me to listen to you or make a company broadcast your conspiracy theories (again, the general you).

Re:GitLab is now running on GCP by smsm42 on Saturday August 11, 2018 @11:32PM (#17742749)
> freedom of speech only applies to governmental entities

You are confusing laws (like 1st amendment of the US Constitution) with freedom of speech. Laws exist because freedom of speech is important, not the other way around. The fact that laws only restrict the government from suppressing freedom of speech doesn't mean it is not important in other contexts, just because there's no law enforcing it.

> nothing can compel me to listen

Banning someone from the internet (or any part of Internet that is serviced by a major corporation, which is almost all of it) is not the same as "I do not want to listen", it's "I don't like you so nobody gets to listen to you, at least not without extraordinary effort which 99.999% of people are not capable of". If you just don't want to listen to somebody on youtube, it's enough to not go to that channel. Removing the whole channel goes way beyond that and the only purpose of that to silence, not to "not listen" but to cause others not to listen.

Re:GitLab is now running on GCP by im3w1l on Sunday August 12, 2018 @06:22AM (#17743777)
Your understanding is naive. EU is telling youtube et al. that they have to """voluntarily""" censor or there will be consequences, so governments are already involved in this. Imagine if China asked youtube to delete videos about Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and youtube complied, would you say the same things?