> > > > The problem lies with the very concept of the idea. Why does Silicon > Valley believe it should decide what is valid speech and what is not? > > I'm sure there are some in Silicon Valley that think this way, but what you said just now doesn't have anything to do with free speech.
Free speech means nobody can stop you from speaking your mind (within limits we're all aware of). It doesn't mean you're entitled to share it everywhere you wish to. More specifically: 1. nobody is entitled to the use of any privately owned website, much less share anything they want 2. while said privately owned websites are more than free to set, change and enforce rules on the platform they own I admin and/or moderate a bunch of pages and groups - I boot and ban people all of the time (two just today) for breaking rules. That - like what Google is doing, in no way amounts to deciding, "what is valid speech and what is not." It's more akin to kicking someone out of your house party for being a drunk fool and telling them not to ever come back... because it's your property, and there is no such right to not be kicked off of someone else's property, or a right to impose on others merely because you want to. > Short answer: Trump. > > The mainstream media lambasted Facebook for allowing fake news and bubbles > that aided Trump. Beware of what you ask for... > > E These sorts of things have been in the works for a long time, but that whole rigmarole certainly seemed to speed things up and bring it to the fore more than ever before, yeah. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
