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: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:06PM (3 children)
Go get a Ruissian domain if you want to be a fascist. [thehill.com]
Google is under no obligation to provide you a platform.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:31PM (2 children)
Love how you immediately draw "fascist" card on me.
I never even said anything about google, what are you on about, mate?
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:50PM (1 child)
I'm not the one that put the fascist card in play. The traitorous Americans carrying around swastikas did that.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday August 17 2017, @12:36PM
I don't respect people who use as the cover for their shitty proposals the fact that there are a few idiots in the world. Just because there are a few thousand swastika carrying idiots in the US doesn't mean that domain registrars should have the power to prevent people from obtaining domains on the basis of beliefs. If these socialist websites are being hidden from view by Google, that's a strong demonstration that such power will eventually get used against us all.