Nick Szabo  🔑

It's amazing the epicyclic knots the political elite tie themselves up in in order to grant themselves special rights and squash the general rights of everybody else. Ditto for journalists and free speech. Free speech for them, censored social networks for everybody else.https://twitter.com/cryptodemedici/status/1031736541389959168 …

Agreed re politicians. Disagreed re journos. Having worked in financial&medical journo (TV/print), ur story pitches & final edits R almost always constrained by company brand/politics. It's certainly a form of censorship whereas every1 else free 2 host website 2 publish thoughts.

Thanks, it wld be more accurate for me to say "free speech for media corporations, censored social networks for everybody else", since a corporation has editorial over what its journalists write as you well observe. n.b. web sites have been censored by Azure, Cloudflare, etc.

Sure, I believe it re Azure, CF, etc. Any examples come to mind immediately? I'm curious to know what was so provocative that they had to take it down.

Right, seems like something Microsoft would do. There are no cloud services options that support free speech? A brief google search didn't lead me to anything viable.