free speech
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Elon Musk Is Wrong About Censorship Hampering Free Speech – He Should Blame the Algorithms
Imagine there is a public speaking square in your city, much like the ancient Greek agora. Here you can freely share your ideas without censorship. But there’s one key difference. Someone decides, for their own economic benefit, who gets to listen to what speech or which speaker. And this isn’t disclosed when you enter, either.…
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Parler Forced Offline After Amazon Pulls Hosting Services
Parler has gone offline after Amazon made good on its promise to drop the controversial social media site from its AWS web hosting services. Amazon pulled the plug at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, saying that Parler wasn’t properly moderating its content and the violence being called for on the site posed “a very real risk…
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Republicans Crying Censorship on Twitter Just Needed to Hit Another Button
It’s only taken about a week for Twitter to become the ultimate symbol of Big Tech (Big T) censoring conservative speech in the minds of Republican politicians. And the GOP outrage has manifested in a telling blunder.
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U.S. Army Esports Team Says It’s Unbanning Americans Who Asked About W4r Cr1mes
The U.S. Army says it will restore Americans’ God-given right to shitpost on its esports channel, the premier destination for watching your favourite former sniper shoot up digital Middle Eastern villages. The Verge reports that the Army has decided to unban pesky anti-war Twitch commenters, with caveats ensuring that, in all likelihood, they’ll be banned…