Enforcers: "Those are the rules"
Everyone: what about our freedom of speech?
Enforcers: those are our rules
New Boss: You're playing by my rules now
Ex-enforcers: what bout our freedom of speech?
New Boss: Welcome to your machine
Everyone: what about our freedom of speech?
Enforcers: those are our rules
New Boss: You're playing by my rules now
Ex-enforcers: what bout our freedom of speech?
New Boss: Welcome to your machine
Somehow the notion of rights is being expanded as a catch-all of various hopes and desires, misunderstood or expected to put obligations on people or entities that those rights do not apply to. This makes rights soft and hard to disagree with, and actually less clear and less valuable.
You have the right to say something. You can go say it at politicians making a speech, you can write a letter, publish an article in some newspaper that will publish it. Not the right to say it on Twitter. Or the New York Times, or whatever outlet. You don't have the right / specific private entities are not required to enable your opinion.
he is, as we speak—and will continue to prove in the future—that “the censors” have been correct all along, social spaces of a certain number of people, if you don’t want the visitors to flee en masse, will need moderation to keep things from breaking down.
The outcry is real. Many many bot networks create massive amounts of cry content.
substitute "richest" for "most powerful" and it gets worse
I guess it is just a numbers game, but this whole page is one of the more unintelligent threads on HN I have ever seen.