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Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by ideals on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:25PM (#23715659)
Start your own blog.

The internet isnt just SV companies. There's nothing stopping you from creating your own platform that espouses your ideals.

Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by gruez on Thursday July 02, 2020 @01:28PM (#23715707)
I think his point is that at the end of the day, you're going to be dependent on someone. With a self hosted blog you're dependent on at least an ISP and registrar, both of which are private entities.
Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by remmargorp64 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @02:56PM (#23716683)
These are good points.

It sounds like a big part of the problem is that we don't have a truly "public" internet, if the backbone of the internet is a bunch of private entities.

We need a truly decentralized internet that doesn't suck like tor currently does.

Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by ideals on Thursday July 02, 2020 @06:00PM (#23718589)
Your ISP is a utility. Twitter is not. Your ISP cannot block you from hosting your own blog on your own servers. Even if your ISP did, there are places which will allow you to host whatever you want. Alex Jones is still online for example. WikiLeaks is still online.

This argument is always about people complaining that they don't get to participate on the big platforms. But if there was so much demand for people shouting about racist loser shit online there would be a big platform for it. It's their responsibility to build it, not Twitter's

Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by daenz on Thursday July 02, 2020 @08:24PM (#23719654)
>people shouting about racist loser shit

This is exactly what I was talking about here[0]. You don't want a place to post freely to exist because you already have a preconceived idea of what people will say, and you are against that. This kind of attitude is hidden behind so many of the "but you can already do X, kinda" responses I've seen before in these discussions.

Why not just lead by saying you don't think a government maintained platform for free speech should exist because you don't want to hear what people who want it would have to say?

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716909

Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by amanaplanacanal on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:25PM (#23725288)
I don’t have any problem with a government provided free speech platform. It would be an interesting experiment. But how are you going to get Congress to fund something that will host racists and pornographers?
Re:MS will ban Forza players who add the confederate flag to... by krapp on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:26PM (#23725293)
The Republicans will allow the racists, and the Democrats will allow the pornographers. Done and done.