Re: Parler

[Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>]

I’m not sure either Joe.  I am a staunch proponent of free expression, but I remember a time when you could just. 
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> On Jan 10, 2021, at 8:25 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:03:51AM -0500, sronan () ronan-online com wrote:
> > Another interesting angle here is that it as ruled President 
> > couldn???t block people, because his Tweets were government 
> > communication. So has Twitter now blocked government communication?
>
> That's not interesting or even a reasonable comparison.
>
> Twitter wasn't involved in the former.  There is a huge difference in
> the President being told that he cannot block random citizens from
> reading his tweets (no Twitter involvement), and Twitter declaring that
> they no longer wish to provide service to the President (Twitter's 
> right as it is their private property).  The President is free to
> pursue alternative venues for his messaging.
>
> Conflating unrelated things and drawing bad conclusions is not useful.
>
>
> At some point, it seems likely that the networking community may be
> faced with more choices such as what Cloudflare faced with 8chan.  In 
> an ideal world, people would act responsibly and we could have the nice
> things like libertarian ideals, but the reality as demonstrated by the
> last quarter century seems to indicate otherwise, in many small and not-
> so-small ways.
>
> I find that distressing, but I am not so libertarian as to insist that
> others pay for this stuff with their lives.  I don't have any idea what
> the correct answer is, though.
>
> ... JG
> -- 
> Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
> "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way
> through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that
> democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"-Asimov