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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 10-Jan-2021 17:53:17 UTC
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@geniusmusing They’re right. No matter how much someone may prefer free speech, others who host it will have to impose limits.
I saw someone recently complaining about a proposal to filter (default: on) search results for rooms on a chat platform and I thought:
1. There are legal restrictions for online content. As a platform expands into other nations, they gain more restrictions.
2. If extremist and offensive results are not hidden by default, normal users leave, rendering the platform useless except as a forum for the most extreme and anti-social people.
If #Parler is supposed to be completely unfiltered and unmoderated, they’ll find that the number of countries where they can safely operate is small.
Again, I’ve never seen the site, so I don’t know whether the content is potentially illegal or just differs politically from what the mobile appstores like. If this is mostly just a political purge, the people rejoicing should be defending them—the axe tends to swing against former allies with the same effect it wielded when swung against opponents—but I don’t think most people look at the long term implications of these things.