On: ‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies

[dragonwriter]

> Let the laws and courts determine that. Not Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey.

So, we should rely on state censorship in preference to the free marketplace of ideas competing for private support to relay them?

[cambalache → dragonwriter]

Yes, do you want the free market to decide who should or should not be killed?

[stale2002 → dragonwriter]

"state censorship" at least in The USA, is pretty limited.

So yes, I would prefer the existing system, where state censorship is extremely limited, to a situation where instead censorship is much more broad and effects more people.

If the speech is legal, then it should be allowed on major communication platforms.

There is even existing laws for this, that we could expand to cover new forms of media.

Those existing laws are called common carrier laws, and they currently apply to the phone network, and they could be changed to include many of the major new platforms.

Common carrier laws are pretty uncontroversial. I would hope that you do not think as they apply to the phone system, that they are some huge example of unfairness.