Spin it how you’d like, but firms should always have the right to choose who they serve. The left supports this w/ the Red Hen, the right supports this w/ the gay b-day cake. In his case, it’s already layed out in the company’s terms. No need to cry, Jones can build a WP site.https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/1026835071683067906 …
Futile dogma. The tech giants are censored and will be censored whether you like it or not.
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Show me some imperial evidence and persuade me. I’ll be waiting.
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P.S. the gay cake case involved a small business with readily available competitors that can provide a similar service. A lone web site is extremely far from a similar service to a tech giant with an audience of millions or billions.
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I’m sensing a very strong anti-capitalistic vibe. That you don’t believe startups still work in the present time, and that you believe these current companies will be the Amtrak’s and Union Pacific’s of the future. Correct?
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Censorship occurs at all levels. If I block you from my Twitter account because I consider your ideas or your attitude unappropiate, I'm doing exactly the same as the big corporations. We humans are full of contradictions, right?
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There’s a difference between censorship by firms we are not forced to fund/don’t work for us, and censorship by entities we are forced to fund with every paycheck/work for us. Private censorship is irrelevant because no one is dependent on what I censor.
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So you are saying that your are not dependent of any private company?
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Hypothetically I have the option to leave any private company that I depend on their services for. Do you believe you do not have that option? Even with the utility companies you have the option to go solar/wind and receive permits to dig your own well.
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I agree, hypothetically. In practise, I prefere to switch for better services or commercial offers rather than to rebuild civilisation to enforce fundamental rights
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I would add that civilisation cannot be rebuilt, fundamentally. We can change superficially here and there, but the roots of conflict and inefficiency remain. Try it with feudalism, communism or capitalism. They haven't solved the most basic human problems even today.
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The trusted 3rd parties argument is powerful in the context of Apple, Spotify, Facebook Youtube censoring at the same time. V. diff from@Red Hen/Cake shop. They are Hobbes’ leviathan, without representation. Decentralised nodes & encryption arrive in the Nick of time.
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