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Campaign against requiring internet companies to spy on people's communications

mardi 10 janvier 2023 à 13:01

A campaign calls on governments not to require internet infrastructure companies to censor people's communications.

Please don't call communications and publications "content". That term disparages all of them as mere filler to keep a container full of something or other.

I find it disturbing that Facebook is criticized for labeling the statement "Men are trash" as "hateful". Of course it is hateful — it blatantly expresses misandry, just as "Women are trash" would express misogyny. Both statements carry hate, similar kinds of hate, in a similar way, differing only in which target is hated.

The crucial point is that neither of those statements should be banned or censored. I might rebuke a person for saying either of them, but to forcibly limit people to saying only nice things (or to show hate only towards those we revile) is intolerable.

Despite that minor inconsistency, this campaign stands for freedom.