“Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square, so it’s really important that people have both the reality and perception that they are able to speak freely, in the bounds of the law.
“Twitter should match the laws of the country, and in my view there’s an obligation to do that. Going beyond that.. tweets mysteriously promoted and demoted.. this can be quite dangerous,” he said.
Then you have Canada where poorly defined “hate speech” can be a criminal offence. If you tweet something that offends the wrong people you can go to jail.
I applaud his efforts to pull Twitter back from the extreme censorship it is engaging in, but what we need are anonymous, decentralized social networks that cannot be controlled by any single party.
> “Twitter has become kind of the de facto town square, so it’s really important that people have both the reality and perception that they are able to speak freely, in the bounds of the law.
> “Twitter should match the laws of the country, and in my view there’s an obligation to do that. Going beyond that.. tweets mysteriously promoted and demoted.. this can be quite dangerous,” he said.
Then you have Canada where poorly defined “hate speech” can be a criminal offence. If you tweet something that offends the wrong people you can go to jail.
I applaud his efforts to pull Twitter back from the extreme censorship it is engaging in, but what we need are anonymous, decentralized social networks that cannot be controlled by any single party.
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