Yes. Do you even understand that the government no longer gives a shit about the constitution? Legality isn't so simple as "I believe the constitution guarantees me the right to talk about it, so it's legal". We had a process for addressing the finer points of the law, and the legality of new laws, but that process has completely broken down. Therefore, the argument that "Illegal content is differentiated from content SOMEONE has subjectively decided isn't safe for me to see" falls apart. Define illegal content?!
This "censorship" isn't even remotely close to the same vein as the MSM. The MSM will ban DISCUSSION on top of links, and they won't stop there. They will hunt you down and ban you from literally everything they can. This forum will do no such thing.
There are "jurisdictions" to this all. There were laws before it became apparent that they would not be applied equally. Companies have the right to restrict your access to their platform, IF it is a private platform, NOT receiving the respective government benefits and protections of a sanctioned open-forum. Big tech claims to be an open forum, meaning they receive government benefits, but they are also supposed to be subject to the constitution rigidly. If they ceased receiving those government benefits, and actually followed their user contract instead of banning people for things that are not violations of that contract, they would have every right to censor you, on their platform, as communities.win in general does. They do not do this; they illegally censor, and they go well beyond their own jurisdiction to get you fired from any job, to dox you, and to, in general, ruin and unperson you. Unlike with this website, they will not just stop you from linking to the content, they will seek to destroy the content entirely as well, to prevent anyone from accessing it in any way.
To compare the actions of the moderators on this website to the actions of big tech is, frankly, absurd.
Not all censorship is bad. I, for one, support the censorship of child pornography. I support dedicated forums censoring to maintain the purpose of their forum. There is a time and a place for everything, and there are more rights than simply the right to freedom of expression. In some instances, these other rights supersede the freedom of expression. If they did not, there could be no justice.
Yes. Do you even understand that the government no longer gives a shit about the constitution? Legality isn't so simple as "I believe the constitution guarantees me the right to talk about it, so it's legal". We had a process for addressing the finer points of the law, and the legality of new laws, but that process has completely broken down. Therefore, the argument that "Illegal content is differentiated from content SOMEONE has subjectively decided isn't safe for me to see" falls apart. Define illegal content?!
This "censorship" isn't even remotely close to the same vein as the MSM. The MSM will ban DISCUSSION on top of links, and they won't stop there. They will hunt you down and ban you from literally everything they can. This forum will do no such thing.
There are "jurisdictions" to this all. There were laws before it became apparent that they would not be applied equally. Companies have the right to restrict your access to their platform, IF it is a private platform, NOT receiving the respective government benefits and protections of a sanctioned open-forum. Big tech claims to be an open forum, meaning they receive government benefits, but they are also supposed to be subject to the constitution rigidly. If they ceased receiving those government benefits, and actually followed their user contract instead of banning people for things that are not violations of that contract, they would have every right to censor you, on their platform, as communities.win in general does. They do not do this; they illegally censor, and they go well beyond their own jurisdiction to get you fired from any job, to dox you, and to, in general, ruin and unperson you. Unlike with this website, they will not just stop you from linking to the content, they will seek to destroy the content entirely as well, to prevent anyone from accessing it in any way.
To compare the actions of the moderators on this website to the actions of big tech is, frankly, absurd.
Not all censorship is bad. I, for one, support the censorship of child pornography. I support dedicated forums censoring to maintain the purpose of their forum. There is a time and a place for everything, and there are more rights than simply the right to freedom of expression. In some instances, these other rights supersede the freedom of expression. If they did not, there could be no justice.