Re:Should Facebook, Google be liable for user posts? asks U....
by danShumway on Friday February 21, 2020 @01:21AM
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I fail to see the problem.
I censor content I don't like on every website I visit, by running an adblocker that filters legal ads that are compliant with that website's terms. The filter list is entirely community maintained, and I can extend it as I see fit, and then share my extensions with any other user. Even though, and I want to stress this -- all of the content I'm blocking is legal.
And that's a pretty good setup. I like it a lot.
Absent narrow exceptions with extremely compelling justifications, users should be generally allowed to filter any content that they want for any reason, and they should be free to form communities around those filters.
I censor content I don't like on every website I visit, by running an adblocker that filters legal ads that are compliant with that website's terms. The filter list is entirely community maintained, and I can extend it as I see fit, and then share my extensions with any other user. Even though, and I want to stress this -- all of the content I'm blocking is legal.
And that's a pretty good setup. I like it a lot.
Absent narrow exceptions with extremely compelling justifications, users should be generally allowed to filter any content that they want for any reason, and they should be free to form communities around those filters.