When the targets of attack were Wikileaks or file-sharing sites, tech people felt comfortable defending free speech.
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Replying to @binarybits
But in the Trump era, very few seem willing to defend the free speech rights of an openly neo-Nazi site.
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Replying to @binarybits
And while the official reason is that the Daily Stormer is inciting violence, that seems like a post-hoc rationalization.
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Replying to @binarybits
I think to some extent it has to do with how much a speaker respects the legitimacy of the country's governance. Nazis do not.
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Replying to @wycats @binarybits
It's a little silly to be able to demand free speech rights while at the same time fetishizing genocide and inciting terrorism.
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I'm not necessarily saying free speech absolutism is right. But CloudFlare and GoDaddy clearly changed their stance in the last week.
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Replying to @binarybits
I think I'm just saying I'm on the same both sides of this issue (like the ACLU guy who opposed the march) and afaict nothing changed.
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I don't think I follow. CloudFlare's position used to be that speech is not a bomb and they weren't going to worry about what customers said
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Now they appear to be cutting off a customer based on the content of their site. That's a clear change, right?
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Sorry I was just speaking for myself. I think you can have both positions coherently. I agree others have changed.
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