Re:Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies
by shadowgovt on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:10AM
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That pushes the power to control who says what from individual companies to the government, since the government is classifying "illegal."
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Re:Censorship is bad even when it’s done by private companies
by buboard on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:09AM
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Illegal comes in two forms: illegal to publish like calls to violence and libel laws which refer to newspapers and "publishers". While the government can sway #2 to introduce political biases, it's not easy to change the definintion of the first in an obviously biased way
The companies can still choose to remain nonpublishers, i.e. platforms - but they have to be impartial. That doesn't mean that censored communities can 't exist in their platforms - but the censoring can only be done by an entity unrelated to them. I think it's a good compromise to separate the platform from the censors.