Nick Szabo  🔑

Deplatforming him on one channel doesn’t deplatform his viewers. Nothing at all happens to them other than they go elsewhere to see him. If he hosted his own vids on his own server there’d be no access issues. Make sure you’re making a logical premise before you press send.

Then why were those viewers not using his website in the first place? Censorship is all about adding barriers, not about perfect silencing. Study authoritarian regimes before becoming an anti-free-speech apologist.

By your logic, remembering that Facebook and twitter are businesses, if I, as a news channel owner, decide I don’t want your content on my channel, I’m censoring you?

Yes you are. When your platform is large enough your choices impact free speech, something that goes way beyond* 1st amendment. That's an externality society needs to hold you accountable for, just like dumping toxic waste. * e.g. online lynch mobs also threaten free speech

Sorry. Doesn’t look like you’re Interested in logical discourse. By your logic you have a right to commandeer screen time and are censored if you are blocked from it.

That's the second time you're pretending me and @peterktodd are not using rational arguments, and also the second time you're using the "by your logic" non-sequitor. It strongly suggest you're arguing in bad faith.

Got no time for people who turn debate into insults like that, I blocked him. BTW here is a libertarian property rights argument for making the deplatforming of long users illegal:https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/1027084880415313922 …

Sorry Nick. I don't buy thit argument. If my tenants signed a contract that said "you can piss on on carpet" then so be it. If you pissed on my rug for 5 years and one day I had enough of it, I have every right to tell you to fuck off. (Not accounting for laws)