Re:Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
by rusk on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:24PM
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This is an argument against centralisation, not against the bounds of free speech.
Re:Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
by kragen on Monday November 08, 2021 @05:40PM
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The premise of that argument against centralization is that silencing people for "hate speech" is a bad thing, rusk. If he'd thought it was good to silence people for "hate speech", or expected his readers to, then it would be an argument in favor of centralization, not against it.
Re:Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
by rusk on Monday November 08, 2021 @06:29PM
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My point Kragen was kind of the inverse of that. Not so much that the argument for censorship was strengthened but moreso what the human condition did with those provileges.
Re:Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
by raxxorrax on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:45PM
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But the example given is quite literal. He described the inevitable development now being sold as "progress" or "maturity" when business takes a central position. This isn't rocket science.
It is an argument about who set the bound of acceptable speech if you are more precise.
Imagine Tim had built the Web the same way folks built Twitter. All our web pages would be would be hosted by a single company, accessed through an API that they defined and could change at whim. Web applications would be far weaker than they are today (since it would be hard to store anything interesting on TimCo’s servers) and powerful corporations would constantly be knocking people offline permanently for various terms-of-service violations (no trademark infringement! no hate speech!).