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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by nprateem on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:00AM (#25715958)
Free speech used to be fine because people used to be exposed to alternative opinions. Now people get put into bubbles by algorithms which show them more of what they want, rather than giving them a healthy diet of diverse opinions. Without that, some people can be easily led to believe any old propaganda and radicalised. The check on extremism has fallen off thanks to personalisation creating echo chambers.

For that reason, a P2P Twitter-type platform where accounts couldn't be removed would be potentially very dangerous.

I would rather try to deal with free speech by looking at personalisation and filter bubbles, perhaps mandating some kind of diversity gets baked into algorithms, which seems to lie at the root of the issue (that and economic inequality).

Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by koheripbal on Sunday January 10, 2021 @11:05AM (#25715998)
You hit on an important point here. Regardless of your ethical opinion on current event, deplatforming/censorship/banning/etc... is going to push more and more people to communicate on more anonymouse p2p censorship resistant platforms, and 10 years from now, those might be the standard.