Comment by Crosseye_Jack
4 months ago
While I get where you are coming from where do you draw the line? If a country sinkholes an IP range/domain name because it is actively being used to defraud its citizens should the rest of the internet drop their interconnects with that country? How about CP? Where should the line in the sand be drawn or should the internet be a FFA for every piece of content possible?
I'm for free speech as much as the next person, but I still have lines in the sand where "speech" turns from being free to being criminal. Who gets to decide where those lines in the sand are? Who would you trust to be the gatekeepers?
EDIT: My point is that every nation has its own set of morals, lets takes the US's take on free speech, its very broad (not a bad thing imo), much broader than pretty much every one of its allies. So should the US cut ties with its allies because they don't agree with every single point that defines free speech?
People seem to forget every country has its own laws, if you don’t like them don’t move there.
>So should the US cut ties with its allies because they don't agree with every single point that defines free speech?
The American vice president recently gave a speech in Europe where he basically said "if you're going to be locking people up for posting memes online, there's no common values and we're not going to keep providing you military protection".
I feel that the US is going very protectionist atm (at least its leaders are), so I'm not very surprised by such statements. though imo even if Europe was completely aligned with the US on free speech, something else would be the reason to threaten military support.
(just a side note: personally I wish Europe as a whole would shift its stance on freedom of speech to be closer to the US's stance on it then it currently is over here, so I'm not going to complain if the VPs statements do actually help kick our leaders up the arse.)