[HN Gopher] EFF, Cory Doctorow warn about the dangers of de-plat...
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       EFF, Cory Doctorow warn about the dangers of de-platforming and
       censorship
        
       Author : MilnerRoute
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-01-16 21:34 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | secfirstmd wrote:
       | Maybe part of the issue is that now is the first time many people
       | in the US actually notice this. When in reality Facebook and
       | similar have been censoring voices for many years. For example
       | Palestinian ones https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/fb-stop-
       | censoring-palestine/
        
       | cheese_van wrote:
       | In the context of the various US objections to China, de-
       | platforming narrows one distinction between the Chinese
       | authoritarian treatment of speech and the US's. While all nation-
       | states are hypocritical to a degree, it certainly allows the
       | Chinese to underline this hypocrisy, while providing cover and
       | justification for their own lack of internet speech freedoms. Not
       | a happy trend for free speech absolutists anywhere.
        
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