What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet
Dan Hollis
goemon at sasami.anime.net
Tue Aug 6 20:17:15 UTC 2019
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019, Rob McEwen wrote:
> 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.
those who perform political curation of content are at risk of losing
their section 230 protections.
archive.fo/zOUBG
if you really want this to happen, go ahead and "remove racism out of
internet". you won't like the result.
-Dan
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