Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet

[Dan Hollis <goemon () sasami anime net>]

On Tue, 6 Aug 2019, Rob McEwen wrote:
> I'm so tired of this thread - but the bottom line is that censorship and even 
> the definition of "hate" and "racism" (especially when used in the 
> vernacular!) are extremely subjective and can lead to situations where 
> reasonable people disagree. And if/when such policies are implemented to try 
> to limit or shut down such speech, horrific unintended collateral damage will 
> LIKELY occur. Also, totalitarian regimes OFTEN use the same arguments to get 
> their foot in the door of controlling and suppressing speech. Even now, the 
> mainstream news media is ALREADY highlighting a very selective part of these 
> murderer's ideologies, and suppressing other parts, in order to convey an 
> overall impression of their ideologies that doesn't actually match them, but 
> furthers certain biased agendas. So actions to suppress "hate speech" and 
> "racism" based on the 1/2 truths that most have been brainwashed to believe 
> about these evil murderers' beliefs (1/2 contradicted by their own actual 
> writings, which are already evil!), is ALREADY well on its way towards 
> potentially causing collateral damage by unplugging or suppressing 
> forums/platforms that really don't closely match the actual ideology of the 
> shooters.

those who perform political curation of content are at risk of losing 
their section 230 protections.

archive.fo/zOUBG

if you really want this to happen, go ahead and "remove racism out of 
internet". you won't like the result.

-Dan