Re:Aaron Swartz Rememberance Day This Monday
by rusk on Monday November 08, 2021 @01:42PM
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> This hasn't changed through the ages
Hasn't it? A few hundred years ago you were talking about the right to speak unsavorily without being put in jail or worse.
In the last hundred years we have developed pervasive media and communications, and these days the discussion is to what degree the unsavory should be given a platform, granted air-time, provided with targeted advertising ... and perhaps more importantly the right to tune it all out if you want.
In the days of Voltaire if you didn't like what somebody was saying you could just walk the other way. These days they follow you round YouTube.
Hasn't it? A few hundred years ago you were talking about the right to speak unsavorily without being put in jail or worse.
In the last hundred years we have developed pervasive media and communications, and these days the discussion is to what degree the unsavory should be given a platform, granted air-time, provided with targeted advertising ... and perhaps more importantly the right to tune it all out if you want.
In the days of Voltaire if you didn't like what somebody was saying you could just walk the other way. These days they follow you round YouTube.