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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by jancsika on Sunday March 17, 2019 @07:23PM (#19417446)
> I think censorship is not going to fix the issue, people have the right to see and face evil if they so wish to and have a strong heart.

I'd like to pentest that. Here are some real and hypothetical cases that should be easier to defend:

* thousands of people access scientific journal articles through scihub

* thousands of people copy books from an illegal mirror of the corpus of digital books from UC libraries that Google scanned for Google books

* millions of people sharing copyrighted digital music and videos

Do you also publicly defend without reservation the behavior of the people in my bullet points above on free speech grounds? Should such users and publishers be defended in their endeavors on free speech grounds?

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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by fiblye on Sunday March 17, 2019 @07:33PM (#19417500)
It’s strange to ask that on HN of all places, because it’s known that loads of people here are for all 3 points. Plenty of people here are against copyright and patents entirely, even.
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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by matz1 on Sunday March 17, 2019 @07:55PM (#19417615)
As a user, Yes. As a publisher no.
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Re:Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shoo... by ionised on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:13AM (#19420146)
Absolutely.
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