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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 16 2017, @09:36PM (1 child)
Libertarians want to ensure free speech for Nazis, because the Nazis are all so manly men and into the man-boy love of a Milo. But Libertariantards do not know about the Pink Triangle.
Or, it is just that Limbaugh, O'Really, Fox News in general, and the Trumpster are being hurt in the bottom line by some really bad public relations! Who would want to buy ad space on Brietbarf News, or on the Daily Strum-und-Drang? Some things are just not socially acceptable, or what we STILL call it, "politically incorrect". Political incorrectness has real world consequences! Who could have foreseen this?
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday August 17 2017, @03:04AM
I'm not a libertarian but I know some -- in your second paragraph you seem to be conflating Republican with Libertarian -- the two are very far apart.
As for the first point, Libertarians would support freedom of speech for all people, even communists. If you don't get that, you don't get libertarianism.