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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 16 2017, @06:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-a-dirty-job dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @01:42AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @01:42AM (#555063)

    +1 Truth. There's a lot of people who are fed up with Nazis AND the PC Police. Extremism is the refuge of a weak mind.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @05:43AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @05:43AM (#555155)

    Extremism is the refuge of a weak mind.

    So are naive blanket statements which ignore any legitimate concerns which "extremists" espouse.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @08:29AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 17 2017, @08:29AM (#555184)

    What is the argument to moderation fallacy?