Tech Companies and Free Speech

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
The new moves go beyond censoring individual stories or posts. Tech companies such as Google, GoDaddy and PayPal are now reversing their hands-off approach about content supported by their services and making it much more difficult for alt-right organizations to reach mass audiences.

But the actions are also heightening concerns over how tech companies are becoming the arbiters of free speech in America. And in response, right-wing technologists are building parallel digital services that cater to their own movement.

Gab.ai, a social network for promoting free speech, was founded in August 2016 by Silicon Valley engineers alienated by the region’s liberalism. Other conservatives have founded Infogalactic, a Wikipedia for the alt-right, as well as crowdfunding tools Hatreon and WeSearchr. The latter was used to raise money for James Damore, a white engineer who was fired after criticizing Google’s diversity policy.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-leaning nonprofit anti-hate group, said until now, PayPal had ignored its complaints that the company was processing donations and payments to dozens of racist and white supremacist groups. The center said PayPal also allowed at least eight groups and individuals openly espousing racist views to raise money that was integral to orchestrating the Charlottesville rally.

“For the longest time, PayPal has essentially been the banking system for white nationalism,” Keegan Hankes, analyst for the Southern Poverty Law Center, told The Washington Post. “It’s a shame it took Charlottesville for them to take it seriously.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...771b8-829b-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html?

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businesses can do business with whom the like [right Sappy discrimination is OK as long as its not Progressive Speech :shrug: ]
but what when a business gets so huge .... Google / Facebook / Twitter
would the left tolerate the business decisions if BLM or AntiFA or NBPP were yanked from the internet like Godaddy did to Stormer

today it is Neo-NAZI's and White Supremacists .... tomorrow it might be something YOU Care About
 

Clem72

Well-Known Member
would the left tolerate the business decisions if BLM or AntiFA or NBPP were yanked from the internet like Godaddy did to Stormer

So the answer is no, they wouldn't be tolerant. But the fact is Stormer wasn't "yanked" from anywhere. Their lease was pulled and they were told to move their ####, which they did (to a Russian server apparently) within what, 2 days? If they were hosting their own server, and didn't use an anonymizing registrar (means the registrar technically owns the domain name and leases it to you) then no one could have done #### to them.
 

Clem72

Well-Known Member
Excuse me ?

When you use a registrar (like Godaddy) they have to collect certain information that then becomes public record. If you do a whois query against a domain name there has to be a POC name/address etc. Many of these registrars offer to provide a service where you don't have to provide this information, because they are registering the domain themselves (so the POC will be their company) and then they will manage it on your behalf. In that case they technically own the domain, not you.
 

Hank

my war
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...771b8-829b-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html?

:popcorn:

businesses can do business with whom the like [right Sappy discrimination is OK as long as its not Progressive Speech :shrug: ]
but what when a business gets so huge .... Google / Facebook / Twitter
would the left tolerate the business decisions if BLM or AntiFA or NBPP were yanked from the internet like Godaddy did to Stormer

today it is Neo-NAZI's and White Supremacists .... tomorrow it might be something YOU Care About

18 threads started today. Congratulations! Clogging the boards once again.... Have to wade through all your BS! Do you ever give it a rest? Do you realize, unless there is some other way to mark threads as "read", when you hit the "new posts", all your crap shows up. Other threads get buried. Very few of your threads even get any kind of interaction...Come on, Dude!
 
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GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
18 threads started today. Congratulations! Clogging the boards once again.... Have to wade through all your BS! Do you ever give it a rest? Do you realize, unless there is some other way to mark threads as "read", when you hit the "new posts", all your crap shows up. Other threads get buried. Very few of your threads even get any kind of interaction...Come on, Dude!


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plenty of posting going on ......... lots in the news

I remember a time when you couldn't keep up with one section let along the entire board
 

Hank

my war
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plenty of posting going on ......... lots in the news

I remember a time when you couldn't keep up with one section let along the entire board

Well, you and NHBoy are primary reasons why the boards aren't so busy these days, due to the clogging, so there's that....
 
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