Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest target: live content

Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest ... by jb775 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:14AM (#25924581)

Since I primarily see the canned response of "they can build their own youtube if they don't like it", I'll rephrase to help get your actual point across:

Imagine if Hitler were currently alive and rising to power in Germany, and imagine if Silicon Valley were located in Germany. Would you be ok with Silicon Valley de-platforming and doing everything in their power to silence the Nazi-opposition political party? And knowing what's about to come, do you think the stance of "they can build their own communication systems" would be beneficial to humanity as a whole?

I'm aware this is kind of extreme but there are multiple responses that missed the point.

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Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest ... by lommelun on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:11AM (#25925211)

Would I be ok with suppressing speech if I was an omnipotent being who knew the future?

Probably yes.

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Re:Silicon Valley is shutting down speech loopholes. Latest ... by Khaine on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:55AM (#25924796)

You do know the Weimar Republic had hate speech laws and enforced them against the nazis:

Contrary to what most people think, Weimar Germany did have hate-speech laws, and they were applied quite frequently. The assertion that Nazi propaganda played a significant role in mobilising anti-Jewish sentiment is, of course, irrefutable. But to claim that the Holocaust could have been prevented if only anti-Semitic speech and Nazi propaganda had been banned has little basis in reality. Leading Nazis such as Joseph Goebbels, Theodor Fritsch and Julius Streicher were all prosecuted for anti-Semitic speech.[1]

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/copenhagen-speech-v...

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