Suresh Venkatasubramanian
I am always amazed by the clarity with which @pluralistic eviscerates big tech frames around the internet. This piece is no exception. https://doctorow.medium.com/yes-its-censorship-2026c9edc0fd
Yes, It’s Censorship - Cory Doctorow - Medium

American political discourse is sticky. It gets all over the place and it’s damned hard to dislodge. People in handcuffs all over the world demand their Miranda rights, and people arguing about…

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Dec 10, 2022 at 5:12pmTusky
Show threadona [she/they]Dec 10, 2022

@geomblog when ignorance classifies what they don't understand as paranoid.
i was classified as it for many years. now i teach some times in universities. so... don't get discouraged 🤓 🐧

@pluralistic

Show threadNeven JovanovicDec 10, 2022
@ona @geomblog @pluralistic An unpleasant truth: "The internet is a space for the public with no publicly owned spaces."
Show threadDarioDec 10, 2022

@pluralistic @geomblog It’s not that something (let’s say your tweet being removed) isn’t censorship, it’s that IT’S NOT ALSO going against your first amendment rights when it’s a private company saying, no.

This does not include hate speech, which is not protected.

The slippery slope we’re facing is how we’ve allowed a varied definition of what hate speech is.

Show threadDarioDec 10, 2022

@geomblog @pluralistic Not to mention that those who are more likely to scream falsely that their first amendment rights are being violated, are of the political spectrum that also see no irony in banning books.

This adds to the conflation between censorship, first amendment rights, and being offended.

Show threadCory DoctorowDec 10, 2022
@dariohudon @geomblog I assure you that there is no First Amendment exception for hate speech.
Show threadDarioDec 10, 2022
@geomblog @pluralistic Oh I am aware, I just like to make that distinction for those stumbling across any comments of mine concerning it.