The Net interprets censorship as justice and laughs about it.
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I'm interested less in the content of ideological deplatforming decisions and more in their mechanism. And right now that mechanism is "does this make J. Random Plutocrat angry when he gets a call about it on the golf course?" There are some ways this could go wrong!
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Americans in general have a weird mental model of how state censorship works. It's not jack-booted thugs kicking down the server room door, but (hypothetically) Microsoft not being awarded a Pentagon contract because it didn't follow vague and unwritten rules of self-censorship
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Just like laws against government snooping are almost beside the point in a climate of pervasive commercial surveillance, the First Amendment is a very poor defense against censorship when the Internet is in the hands of a very small number of large transnational corporations
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I'm also trying to understand the phenomenon around things like internet censorship and cancel culture where enthusiastic practitioners don't defend it, but instead ridicule the idea that it even exists.
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Freedom of the press only applies to those who own the printing press. It has always been that way. How do you imagine hosting or email is different?
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Also, what "state like power?" Violence? Because that is the only Monopoly the government seems to have any more. How is this violence? It's not.
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There are few if any tech monopolies and they don’t have state like power
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Is there some other internet I'm not familiar with?
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