The right and the associated white supremists have far too much freedom to spread disinformation, racism and hatred.
I'm sure we'll see free speech absolutists in arms about this, but today is a good day for democracy.
Yeah, I think I'm done with this industry. When did everyone become a fascist all of a sudden?
Edit: Fascism literally means big corporations and governments imposing a moral structure on society. What Apple is doing is fascist. It's also stupidly anticompetitive by not booting Facebook and Twitter off for the same reasons.
This was not free speech, as has been defined by the US Supreme Court for at least a century, because "fighting words" (speech that may lead to the harm or limitation of rights of others) are not considered free speech.
Talking about racism and other bad ideas is protected, but suggesting sedition and bodily harm is not.
This is good to know in the coming days when the fascists come out of the woodwork.
It’s an attempted justification for the “cleansing” that’s already well underway on Twitter today, and will continue unabated for as long as the majority is silent while the radicals cheer it on.
While a small minority loudly yell ”good riddance” the rest of us wonder what happens next time we write something wrong.
Who gets to decide what constitutes disinformation, racism or hatred?
If you have someone who decides who can speak and what they are allowed to say, that person holds all the power and is hence a dictator. Having a dictator isn't very democratic.
Apple, if it's on their platform. In an alternate universe, the elected representatives of the populace.
>If you have someone who decides who can speak and what they are allowed to say
The U.S. and all countries already do this through the numerous exceptions to free speech rights.
If we are talking about their role as a means of communication, where is the rage at Verizon, ATT, T-Mobile, etc.? The is where the argument of repealing Section 230 because of the insurrection breaks down.
First they came for the nazis, and I didn't say anything because, well, fuck nazis. Then end.
Isn't interesting that last week, an article summarizing the soft sciences' best attempt at determining whether allowing children to play violent video games makes them actually violent later in life was so well received? No one on Hacker News was surprised that shooting people in video games does not correlate to shooting people in real life.
But if someone is permitted to watch Islamic terrorist propaganda, or read white supremacist's flawed logical arguments, that's somehow guaranteed to convert some percentage of people to those ideologies; therefore they should be banned from all platforms.
Compare that to Parler, where you usually join because "hey, those people are conservatives, like me". Neonazis have gotten pretty damn good at slowly steering people to what they want. Hiding your power level and all. Suddenly, in a place where you feel safe, some people start telling you that, say, it's all because of antifas. You might not believe it at first. But through repeated exposure, in a place where you feel safe, slowly but surely it seeps in. There are studies on how much more easily the brain is affected when you feel in a safe place.
Going to Parler for most people isn't to see what the white supremacists are about these days. Just hop on /Pol/ for that, or Stormfront for actual Nazis and you'll see it.