The relative silence around this issue from the #WordPress community speaks volumes. What it says is left to the interpreter to decide. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/business/media/sandy-hook-conspiracies-leonard-pozner.html … While this case is about a specific company using WordPress, the situation is one any WordPress user may face.
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One thing I find striking about this article is the following statement from someone at the company: “the pain that the family has suffered is very real and if tied to the contents of sites we host, we want to have policies to address that.”
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Morten Rand-Hendriksen Retweeted jack
This sounds a lot like a statement
@jack made just a few days ago:https://twitter.com/jack/status/1027962500438843397 …Morten Rand-Hendriksen added,
jackVerified account @jackAgree w all of this. Our early values informed our rules. We likely over-rotated on one value, & then let the rules react to rapidly changing circumstances (some we helped create). We need to root these values in human rights law. A starting consideration: http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/index.html … https://twitter.com/davidakaye/status/1027588269591027712 …1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
Taking a step back from the specifics of this case, what we may see here is a slow realization that the hardline stance on free speech above all is problematic because free speech is not superior to other rights; it is part of a set of rights which work together to ensure freedom
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Perhaps we should look to Hippocrates and add an Amendment Zero: "First, do no harm." then every other right must be viewed through the lens of consequences.
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