It’s fraudulent to promise people free speech and then censor them. It’s fraudulent to promise people a free market and then ban them from trading.
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Can we get a tag specifically for first amendment failures? Because there seem be a lot of posts that amount to “people disagree with me, that’s censorship!” Or “nobody’s providing me with a platform for free, that’s censorship!”
It’s fraudulent to promise people free speech and then censor them
...so you think that terrorists have the right to free speech? Even before 6/1?
Think extremely carefully before answering, OP.
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Example of left-wing economic views becoming mainstream: +BigBadTech on Ruqqus.
An especially nasty part is that these companies collude to prevent the competition they’d otherwise have to worry about. Classic example: your startup getting blocked by payment processors.
It would certainly get worse once you add state repression (see: the Great Firewall of China), but it’s certainly a challenge to “the free market will fix it” when those attempts to fix it get shut down—-not even by the government officials calling for more censorship, but by the private sector.
When Google was vying for userbase with Yahoo and AOL, user-hostile features were less common.
“It’s fraudulent to promise people free speech and then censor them.”
"It’s fraudulent to promise people a free market and then ban them from trading.”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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