Comment by SpecialistK
1 day ago
It's "thoughtcrime" and "censorship" when they do it. It's "stopping disinformation" and "protecting democracy" when we do it.
1 day ago
It's "thoughtcrime" and "censorship" when they do it. It's "stopping disinformation" and "protecting democracy" when we do it.
That is unfortunately the truth of it. There are distressingly few people in the US these days who actually have a principled belief in freedom of speech. Both the left and the right talk up freedom of speech when they are out of power, but are quite willing to destroy it when they are in power. I would give my left proverbial for a political party that actually protects freedom of speech.
I think the people blocking content in Europe and those "protecting democracy" in the US share most of the same political beliefs.
ATM, nobody is blocking any actual content unless it breaks very specific laws, like CSAM.