Free Speech Puts U.S. on ‘A Collision Course’ with Global Limits on Big Tech

Re:Free Speech Puts U.S. on ‘A Collision Course’ with Global... by manfredo on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @12:32AM (#19725636)

It's a big rock and a hard place. I know plenty of people in tech that are adverse to the idea of government regulating tech, but at the same time do not believe it is right for the small segment of the population working in tech to decide what conversations we are and are not allowed to discuss. Cloudflare expressed a good perspective on this sort of self-reflective doubt when they terminated the Daily Stormer: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/

At lot of people I talk to want to have some sort of national consensus on regulating platforms instead of tech companies deciding for themselves. Government would be the natural mechanism by which to manage this, but we are extremely wary of putting speech in control of the government for good historical reasons.

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Re:Free Speech Puts U.S. on ‘A Collision Course’ with Global... by kantos2 on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @07:33AM (#19727515)

>I know plenty of people in tech that are adverse to the idea of government regulating tech, but at the same time do not believe it is right for the small segment of the population working in tech to decide what conversations we are and are not allowed to discuss

Government also are small segment of the population, moreover politicians don't understand the topic.

Cloudflare and other tech pundits just want to be free from consequences of their decisions. If gov tell them to censor they would just say, its not us, its you country law.

This is purely PR endeavor.

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