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RE: Censorship is impossible in a Free Society

in #censorship8 years ago (edited)

I'll go one further:

People use "Freedom of Speech" wrong, in general, even, sometimes especially, people who claim to be anarchist/libertarian.

Freedom of Speech, in its simplicity, only means that the government is not allowed to restrict your speech. As in the government is not allowed to ban your opinions by law. Fine you for certain opinions, etc.

I believe in freedom of speech.

That said, you are not allowed to come to my living room, in my house which I own, and call me a jackass.

I have every right to remove you from my living room, because I decide what sort of speech goes on in my living room, because it's my property.

Likewise, services like Twitter, Facebook, etc. have the right to remove posts from their platform, based on the fact that they own the platform, and if they see that it is in their best interest to remove something, it makes sense that they will.

Now, I have witnessed censorship that I, personally, did not approve of in certain blogging platforms, so I simply took my relatively popular blogs somewhere else. That's what you do, like was said in the post itself: you take your business somewhere else.

That's the beauty of freedom. But it has nothing to do with "freedom of speech". A problem with freedom of speech would be something like hate speech laws.

By the way, I also agree with the fact that let's not scare "normal people" away. There are plenty of ancap circle jerk networks on the internet. Steemit can be better than that.