Monday roundup
Monday - 22Oct2018 Filed in: Headlines
Headlines that don't merit their own entry
Mueller report PSA: Prepare for disappointment
TSA Announces Plans To Subject Domestic Travelers To Biometric Screening
Guilty until proven innocentPsyched at The American Psychological Association
Don't you dare question the expertsFacebook Blacklists Left-Wing Site that Praised Purge of Infowars
Unaccountable censorshipEthanol Boondoggle
“Ethanol fuel is a boondoggle that benefits Big Agra, corn farmers and refiners and no one else.”Saudis Admit Khashoggi Murder - Offer Weak Cover-Up
An Ohio University Student Said She Received Death Threats. The Police Think She Sent Them Herself.
Caravan of migrants swells to 7,000 and stretches more than a mile long as they continue marching towards the U.S. border
Comments
Censorship & corporate virtue signalling
So the big news is that Apple decided to remove the Alex Jones Infowars podcasts. YouTube and Facebook followed. Twitter did not.
Alex Jones is wrong almost all the time. He's not worth your time or mine. Infowars is not a good source.
Absolutely these companies have the right to decide who does and does not use their platform. It's their money after all.
But they are hypocrites when they declare that they support free speech while applying selective censorship. Especially if they allow the Islamist, the anti-semitic, the anti-conservative, the antifa, and the anti-white stuff to stay on their platforms.
That's the problem with hate speech. Somehow it's always about what the other guy said, never about what you said.
And all this still overlooks the obvious. If someone doesn't like what is in a podcast or a video, they don't have to pay attention.
Demanding it's removal for the greater good is the coward's way out. It means you don't trust someone to make their own choices. You want to meddle. You wouldn't stand for it if someone else did it to you.
People should choose for themselves. Corporations have lousy morals.
Alex Jones is wrong almost all the time. He's not worth your time or mine. Infowars is not a good source.
Absolutely these companies have the right to decide who does and does not use their platform. It's their money after all.
But they are hypocrites when they declare that they support free speech while applying selective censorship. Especially if they allow the Islamist, the anti-semitic, the anti-conservative, the antifa, and the anti-white stuff to stay on their platforms.
That's the problem with hate speech. Somehow it's always about what the other guy said, never about what you said.
And all this still overlooks the obvious. If someone doesn't like what is in a podcast or a video, they don't have to pay attention.
Demanding it's removal for the greater good is the coward's way out. It means you don't trust someone to make their own choices. You want to meddle. You wouldn't stand for it if someone else did it to you.
People should choose for themselves. Corporations have lousy morals.