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Re:The global gag on free speech is tightening by antipropaganda on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:42AM (#21143784)
The larger problem here is that many technology companies have become virtual monopolies. If you can be deplatformed from Youtube + Facebook + Twitter then you will not be heard at all. Afterward, your political opponents can go online on these platforms and call you a 'Nazi' a million times. At this point, what Joseph Goebbels said applies: 'If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it'[1]. This causes even more platforms to deplatform you and eventually, it becomes a cycle.

The core of the problem is that these companies are too big, too influential. They must be broken up

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

Re:The global gag on free speech is tightening by throwawaysea on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:47AM (#21143819)
Yes, totally agree. These big companies must be broken up, or treated with a much greater degree of regulation (effectively holding them to the standards that the government is held to, as sole provider of some functions).
Re:The global gag on free speech is tightening by patientplatypus on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:02AM (#21144159)
The larger larger problem is that those giants are owned lock stock and two smoking barrels by advertisers. You can say anything you want on the internet so long as it doesn't lose Proctor & Gamble or Mars or Pepsi Co any money.

Oh the land of the freeeeee.....