What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet

Tue Aug 6 18:30:03 UTC 2019

I'm so tired of this thread - but the bottom line is that censorship and 
even the definition of "hate" and "racism" (especially when used in the 
vernacular!) are extremely subjective and can lead to situations where 
reasonable people disagree. And if/when such policies are implemented to 
try to limit or shut down such speech, horrific unintended collateral 
damage will LIKELY occur. Also, totalitarian regimes OFTEN use the same 
arguments to get their foot in the door of controlling and suppressing 
speech. Even now, the mainstream news media is ALREADY highlighting a 
very selective part of these murderer's ideologies, and suppressing 
other parts, in order to convey an overall impression of their 
ideologies that doesn't actually match them, but furthers certain biased 
agendas. So actions to suppress "hate speech" and "racism" based on the 
1/2 truths that most have been brainwashed to believe about these evil 
murderers' beliefs (1/2 contradicted by their own actual writings, which 
are already evil!), is ALREADY well on its way towards potentially 
causing collateral damage by unplugging or suppressing forums/platforms 
that really don't closely match the actual ideology of the shooters.

Again, I'm not defending the murderers in the slightest - I'm just 
saying that many of those in favor of limiting speech are the SAME crowd 
that is either publishing or consuming content that describes the 
shooters' ideologies in a certain particular way that purposely tries to 
make them look like a DIFFERENT group of deranged people, in order to 
advance a biased agenda. So we're already well on the way towards the 
collateral damage I mentioned above.

Also, I'm not saying that nothing should ever be done, or that we can't 
make any changes or improvements, but the cure might end up being 
potentially much worse than the disease if we're not careful.

-- 
Rob McEwen

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