The war over censorship is not a war over whether it should be happening or not, but a war over who dictates what is worthy of censoring. We lose whether it’s the Dems or the GOP. The Dems have their hands just as deep in it (e.g., “state-affiliated media” labels) and it’s hilarious how this is painted as so one-sided to believe that there’s only political motivation in the GOP’s case.
One only needs to recognize that the arguments the tech companies are putting forth are bad faith and contradictory to their actions to realize this (I mean, c’mon…they’re literally big tech).
Bergmayer said the verdict could cause platforms to lose their ability to effectively stop the spread of hate speech, abuse, and misinformation. He suggests the ruling implies that newspapers could be ordered to publish propaganda or email spam filters could become illegal because it’s a tech company blocking political speech.
They’ve never had an interest in stopping the spread of those things. Newspapers already publish propaganda. The spam filter legality question is just absurd, but they know that because even current laws do not consider political messaging to be spam and refuse to apply that framework to it which allows for a firm exercised abuse. They’re trying to hold our rights hostage in a self-serving manner like they always do without meaning to contribute to the defense of them.
The war over censorship is not a war over whether it should be happening or not, but a war over who dictates what is worthy of censoring. We lose whether it’s the Dems or the GOP. The Dems have their hands just as deep in it (e.g., “state-affiliated media” labels) and it’s hilarious how this is painted as so one-sided to believe that there’s only political motivation in the GOP’s case.
One only needs to recognize that the arguments the tech companies are putting forth are bad faith and contradictory to their actions to realize this (I mean, c’mon…they’re literally big tech).
They’ve never had an interest in stopping the spread of those things. Newspapers already publish propaganda. The spam filter legality question is just absurd, but they know that because even current laws do not consider political messaging to be spam and refuse to apply that framework to it which allows for a firm exercised abuse. They’re trying to hold our rights hostage in a self-serving manner like they always do without meaning to contribute to the defense of them.