• jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    I’m very much against this. This is antithetical to a free and open internet. Having a central authority decide what voices are more correct and then amplifying them. That’s exactly the problem they’re complaining about. They’re only complaint is they’re not the ones doing the amplification.

    You need to pick some principles and stick to your guns. You can’t be wishy-washy just because things you don’t like are being promoted. I would much rather donate money to the EFF, the ACLU, GNU. Open platforms that don’t try to politicize the people using the platforms.

    This is exactly why funding the Mozilla foundation is troublesome, I want to support an open internet and I want to fund the browser. But I don’t want to fund a political arm that’s actively trying to add censorship controls to core systems.

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        1 year ago

        Glad I’m not alone.

        People should realize any censorship system will be used against you, eventually, the groups in power change over time. Any tool you make against the bad people is used against you, or your children, eventually.

        Better to build fair, open, democratic, distributed systems then build extra thought crime controls into central ones.