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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3667936" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p>Good <a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi" target="_blank"><u>@<strong>mtaibbi</strong></u></a> article on the dangers of Silicon Valley giants being able to unite to vaporize people from the internet, and the irrationality of cheering for it simply because you happen to hate their first target <a href="https://t.co/V9sP0w0O4R" target="_blank"><u>https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/facebook-censor-alex-jones-705766/ …</u></a><a href="https://t.co/TB60yODRLB" target="_blank"><u>pic.twitter.com/TB60yODRLB</u></a></p><p></p><p><u><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkBUOAzWsAARNRG.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></u></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><br /> Leftists used to recognize without much difficulty that - ethics and the like aside - nothing strengthens fascists and neo-fascists more than censorship. It turns them into martyrs, draws more attention and appeal to them. Every fascist group I've ever known loved being censored<a href="https://t.co/7gZ4NwqbXw" target="_blank"><u>pic.twitter.com/7gZ4NwqbXw</u></a><br /> <br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><br /> <br /> Here, from Manufacturing Consent, is more Chomsky on the need to defend the right of even the most pernicious views - from Nazism to Holocaust denial - to be freely expressed. He wasn't just talking about state sanctions, but the basic principles of free expression & discourse:<a href="https://t.co/FQqpdIvnDy" target="_blank"><u>pic.twitter.com/FQqpdIvnDy</u></a><br /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><br /> <br /> All that said, conservatives - who have long insisted private companies are free to do what they want & disassociate themselves from ideas they find offensive (baking gay cakes) - have zero basis to complain about Silicon Valley censorship unless they agree they're monopolies.<br /> </li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3667936, member: 56035"] Good [URL='https://twitter.com/mtaibbi'][U]@[B]mtaibbi[/B][/U][/URL] article on the dangers of Silicon Valley giants being able to unite to vaporize people from the internet, and the irrationality of cheering for it simply because you happen to hate their first target [URL='https://t.co/V9sP0w0O4R'][U]https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/facebook-censor-alex-jones-705766/ …[/U][/URL][URL='https://t.co/TB60yODRLB'][U]pic.twitter.com/TB60yODRLB[/U][/URL] [U][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkBUOAzWsAARNRG.jpg[/IMG][/U] [LIST] [*] Leftists used to recognize without much difficulty that - ethics and the like aside - nothing strengthens fascists and neo-fascists more than censorship. It turns them into martyrs, draws more attention and appeal to them. Every fascist group I've ever known loved being censored[URL='https://t.co/7gZ4NwqbXw'][U]pic.twitter.com/7gZ4NwqbXw[/U][/URL] [*] Here, from Manufacturing Consent, is more Chomsky on the need to defend the right of even the most pernicious views - from Nazism to Holocaust denial - to be freely expressed. He wasn't just talking about state sanctions, but the basic principles of free expression & discourse:[URL='https://t.co/FQqpdIvnDy'][U]pic.twitter.com/FQqpdIvnDy[/U][/URL] [*] All that said, conservatives - who have long insisted private companies are free to do what they want & disassociate themselves from ideas they find offensive (baking gay cakes) - have zero basis to complain about Silicon Valley censorship unless they agree they're monopolies. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]
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