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Caitlin Johnstone writes in a blog post over at Medium that corporate censorship is ramping up while people are distracted by the menace of government censorship.
It is true that it is the most controversial and repulsive speech which is most severely in need of protection, and that a government which is granted the power to silence Nazis can be expected to use that power to silence political dissent. But there is no danger of this ever happening in the United States, because corporate censorship can be used to silence anti-establishment voices with far less pushback.
Egged on by the resurfacing of obnoxious and sometimes illegal groups, more groups are pushing for, and sometimes getting, full online silence from other voices. Those in power will have corporations do any of the dirty work that might generate push back.
(Score: 1, Disagree) by bob_super on Wednesday August 16 2017, @07:17PM
Love the implied equivalence between fighting discrimination and allowing Nazi speech. Think about it again.
I'm not in the business of telling people who they should bake a cake for, and puzzled at the idea of forcing hateful people to get your money to bake a cake for your wedding when they hate you. I am, however, perfectly fine with anyone refusing to be associated with Neo-Nazi propaganda and hate speech.