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LIVE FREE. OR SHUT THE FUCK UP TRYING.

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Absolutely not

Yeah but businesses have the right not to go out of business, and free speech is, by and large, very bad for business. It's extremely hard to be in favour of the right of individuals to near-total free speech in commercial domains and also the right of businesses to make a profit. You can be in favour of near-total free speech in a charity/NGO/expensively-manifested-thought-experiment domain, that's cool.

Personally I think the goal is to get close enough that it would cost more to censor that very dregs of speech than it would to allow it. To decrease the bar for people to host their own speech, and more importantly, for people to find it.

Fair but I think it almost never costs more to censor than to allow. Humans like to be in spaces that other humans, either implicitly or explicitly, aren't allowed to enter. We'll gladly pay for that. And most humans also don't like labour, including the labour of having to create and maintain such spaces themselves (those that do are outliers). Humans love to outsource. Therefore, for an online business, setting rules drives revenue, and even if it costs more in absolute terms to censor this or that, those costs are offset by the gains in revenue from people willing to outsource the labour of curation.

You are exactly correct. The profitability of a platform is determined entirely by human choice. And one thing that can be counted on is that humans will choose platforms with prejudicial content filtering. A person can already host their own speech through individual effort alone. Similarly, indexing and filtering internet content can already be done through sole individual effort of those who would listen to that speech. In a way, we have perfect free speech on the modern internet already, even without needing to build new infrastructure. You can hardly be said to have a platform in the first place unless you some form of tyrannical filtering, in addition to hosting and sharing user content. My argument is that these services need not be mandatory. In fact, they SHOULD not be mandatory. I believe that given the importance of user choice, in a well designed platform, the tools to achieve cheap and perfect free speech would already be built in by default. I believe that to have a platform that does not at least have the option of allowing users to post or view any content is either putting in extra unnecessary effort in order to artificially block some uses of the platform, or the platform is ALREADY shooting themselves in the foot by not respecting user choice as much as it could be.

Here we go with the philosophy again. Adorable 😊

Philosophy? Do you have any idea how many times I've been banned from a platform that supposedly supported free speech? How many times I've seen other people banned? Do you think the arguments I present are just thought experiments or positions I've made up? I have heard people making most of those points over and over again. "Adorable" implies I have something I could learn, but if you truly know that I am ignorant in something then what is this perspective that I am lacking huh? Do you have anything of substance behind you?

Sounds like you should spend a lot less time on the internet dude. You’re clearly in a very unhappy and irrational place if this is your reaction to a pretty objective post.

I'm confused, what do you mean by "objective"? What did I say about the post?

In the US, the First Amendment phrase "freedom of speech" is prefaced by "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the" meaning it was not seen as a positive right that others owe you but rather a negative right against government interference.

the entire edifice of "hate speech" is an offense against civil society, it is literally fascism, to dictate to people what business they may do (as opposed to everyone is the government, as in communism) yet the whole western world has turned into literal nazi germany at this point

Bitcoin stuff over nostr

i want to be the one that just damn leave all social media and be fine with that

who wrote this?

who wrote this?