This is exactly what those free speech advocates meant when talking about slippery slopes: you either support free speech or censure. There is no middle ground.
Disclaimer: I think Infowars is pure, evil sh*t.
Pause this slippery slope argument for a second.
The current situation in Belarus:
- Protestors are being imprisoned by unidentified agents in unidentified vehicles
- Protestors are being _tortured_ throughout nightly interrogations
- Protest _organizers_ have been kidnapped overnight and hanged from trees to get the OMON's point across.
This isn't a US politics disinformation twitter ping-ball discussion of who gets to sound the smartest in logical argumentation.
This is an actual dictatorship, with real people and real blood.
Similar to poker, it rarely goes all the way to showdown. But the possibility of showdown still shapes everything.
In this case, they're policing user generated content on a platform.
The equivalent would be if they asked telegram to block infowars channels, or asked VPN providers to block the infowars website.
I had literally just started to defend/advocate-for apple after trash talking it for a while, but clearly I was extremely wrong.
App stores must not be political, even if the politics agree with you.
Some particular country does not allow books promoting religions other than their official religion. What am I supposed to do? Refuse to sell books on pet care or calculus or gardening in that country because I can't sell books about Druidism?
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine
A later study, funded by Syngenta itself, essentially said “nothing to see here, move along”.
Endocrine disruptors can cause changes in sexual behaviours and expression of primary and secondary sexual characteristics in animals (including humans).
Not exactly the same thing but this is the grain of truth in what seems like an entirely absurd idea.