Comment by like_any_other
2 months ago
A very good comic. But it would be even better and more accurate if it changed "the people" in
"It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole, and they're showing you the door."
to "the unelected multinational corporation". Anyway I'll go tell Human Rights Watch [1] that it's just free association in action and that if Palestinians want to have their stories heard they should just build their own competing media platform with global reach. And the EU Commission should also have a copy of that comic sent to them [2].
[1] https://text.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorshi...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/eu-energetically...
Unelected multinational corporation: still just a bunch of people.
A bar, or a music festival is also possibly an unelected multinational corporation. Still can kick people out.
I wonder, why can’t I go into the lobby of the Sony building in NYC and stand in my soapbox and rant about TimeCube?
Technically, my blog is run by an unelected multinational corporation… I guess when I delete spam, I’m censoring, right?
It’s just not that hard people.
Facebook is t the government.
Yes, if I kick someone out of my house for being a jerk, and if Google and Facebook globally censor a story, it's the same, because in both cases it's done by people. Thank you for this insightful contribution.
Correct. It is the same, legally, and with respect to the first amendment to the constitution. You cannot force a private (read non-government) entity to endorse, publish, promote, host, etc. anything.
It’s their choice.
Morally equivalent? Heck no.