On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 6:48 AM <[email protected]> wrote: *John, I could provide many examples of censorship. * >
You claim you could provide "many examples" of corporate censorship, and yet despite my many many requests you can't provide a single one. I remember when I was a kid I'd be arguing with a fellow kid and he'd say "there are a million reasons your idea won't work" and I'd say "name one" and he'd say "there are so many reasons I can't name one". It's been a while since I heard an argument that juvenile. > *you're ideologically left, ahem! Not really a small l, Libertarian.* > How do you figure that? I'm a firm believer in capitalism and the free market, but the left doesn't. That's why for most of my life I was a registered Republican, I was a member of the party of Lincoln, but then about 15 years ago the Republicans started to go stupid. The straw that broke the camel's back for me came in 2011 when they started openly talking about defaulting on the national debt (which would've been a worldwide economic Chernobyl) and they came within 45 minutes of actually doing so by refusing to extend the debt ceiling. The very next day I changed my party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, and since 2011 the party has become even stupider, much much stupider. The conventional 1-D left-right distinction is insufficient to describe one's political beliefs, you need 2 more axis, libertarian-totalitarian, and smart-stupid. The political landscape cannot be put on a line, it's a 3-D volume. > *I would say screw it, let all voices be heard, uncensored*. > Unless one of those voices actually describes screwing. I haven't forgotten your affection for the decency act and your demonization of corporations for spending "oligarch money" to defend the first amendment from religious right wing nut jobs. > *In response to your complaint, here is a Wiki list of those banned from > Jack Dorsey's Twitter [...] * Thanks for the link but I already know how to use Wikipedia. And Jack Dorsey not wanting HIS PLATFORM used to peddle blatant lies that are killing people is NOT an example of corporate censorship! How many people has Jack Dorsey executed for saying something he doesn't like, how many people has he tortured, how many people has he imprisoned, how many fines has he been able to impose? ZERO. Only governments havethe power to do those things. You have a perfect right to say anything you like, but I have a perfect right not to help you do so in a louder voice if I don't want to. > > *Here's a Guardian article concerning FaceBook *[...] > I don't want you to give me a Guardian article about Facebook, I want you did give me a specific example of a corporation engaging in censorship. Just one goddamn example! John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> mko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv2EA2tbVtU1wJAk4%3D8Jz8gfOEbHJM5H57CK6WhAq9V90w%40mail.gmail.com.
