Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
by mlyle on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:44PM
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> but considered by many of us to be a core American cultural value
Free speech includes being able to -not- utter things of your choice, too. No one will join me in decrying that my local paper will not publish my 30 page treatise on Flat Earth.
Yes-- power concentrating with a few gatekeepers of speech in tech is troublesome. That's what makes their moderation decisions so worrisome: that they're so empowered.
> Free speech doesn’t include provable lies
I think most provable lies are included in free speech, actually.
> or inciting imminent violence
Yup. But we kicked all the people off the mainstream platforms for things that were less than this, so now those platforms have less power to suppress the cries for violence.
Free speech includes being able to -not- utter things of your choice, too. No one will join me in decrying that my local paper will not publish my 30 page treatise on Flat Earth.
Yes-- power concentrating with a few gatekeepers of speech in tech is troublesome. That's what makes their moderation decisions so worrisome: that they're so empowered.
> Free speech doesn’t include provable lies
I think most provable lies are included in free speech, actually.
> or inciting imminent violence
Yup. But we kicked all the people off the mainstream platforms for things that were less than this, so now those platforms have less power to suppress the cries for violence.