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Re:Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of spe... by michaelmrose on Saturday September 10, 2022 @02:23PM (#32793184)
It's literally trivial to have your own twitter/facebook/youtube analog. You can in turn spread information about its existence through exciting means like email.

You aren't entitled to an audience of hundreds of millions and indeed have never in the history of free speech been entitled to such.

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Re:Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of spe... by Levitz on Saturday September 10, 2022 @06:29PM (#32795075)
And then one day your CDN drops you, another day your hosting service does, Google stops indexing you... You get the idea.

Justifiable or not, tales of those such as 8chan or now Kiwifarms do show that anyone wanting to host a website depends on companies.

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Re:Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of spe... by rgrieselhuber on Saturday September 10, 2022 @04:11PM (#32794216)
When taxpayer-funded officials are telling private companies what to censor, your argument falls on its face. It has nothing to do with how hard it is to build a website.
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Re:Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of spe... by michaelmrose on Saturday September 10, 2022 @05:05PM (#32794571)
I'm not aware of anything being censored other than spam and other obvious breaches of TOS. Not being algorithmically promoted to like minded weirdos isn't the same as being censored.

You have no legal right to an exact placement in search results or in people's feeds. Censored means your content is obviated, deleted, removed.

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