Re:Google Play store bans polyamory dating app
by echelon on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:33AM
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This is why politics and policy shouldn't mix.
Platforms can't deny service. Freedom depends on individual choice.
The ACLU defended Parler. Most of the Capitol Hill planning happened on Facebook, anyway.
I'm a Democrat and voted for Biden/Ossoff/Warnock, but we can't censor Republican and conservative websites. That's letting power get to our heads, and baking in this sort of status quo will bite us down the road when other entities want to censor us.
Speak ill of foreign governments? I could see a world where that's prohibited. Let's not let it happen.
Freedom of speech, freedom to run your software on your own device, and rules for the platforms that enhance both of these liberties.
Platforms can't deny service. Freedom depends on individual choice.
The ACLU defended Parler. Most of the Capitol Hill planning happened on Facebook, anyway.
I'm a Democrat and voted for Biden/Ossoff/Warnock, but we can't censor Republican and conservative websites. That's letting power get to our heads, and baking in this sort of status quo will bite us down the road when other entities want to censor us.
Speak ill of foreign governments? I could see a world where that's prohibited. Let's not let it happen.
Freedom of speech, freedom to run your software on your own device, and rules for the platforms that enhance both of these liberties.