Amazon/Google are now demonstrating their powers to shut down speech. While I personally agree that Parler (or any other site that encourages murdering people, including left radicals) needs to be shut down, I do not trust Amazon/Google to only use their power in this case. I think what's really going on is that they are trying to test the limits, and in the future we might see corporate censorship used more often, possibly as yet another competitive tool.
Call me crazy, but I think corporate censorship is going to make us miss good old state censorship.
Congress hauled tech executives in front of committees and demanding they do something about "fake news", and government-funded think tanks like the Atlantic Council are telling them who to censor:
We're going to miss state censorship (Score:3, Insightful)
Amazon/Google are now demonstrating their powers to shut down speech. While I personally agree that Parler (or any other site that encourages murdering people, including left radicals) needs to be shut down, I do not trust Amazon/Google to only use their power in this case. I think what's really going on is that they are trying to test the limits, and in the future we might see corporate censorship used more often, possibly as yet another competitive tool.
Call me crazy, but I think corporate censorship is going to make us miss good old state censorship.
but it's also state censorship (Score:2)
Congress hauled tech executives in front of committees and demanding they do something about "fake news", and government-funded think tanks like the Atlantic Council are telling them who to censor:
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