• BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Forcing people to host speech they don’t want to is far more draconian than not doing so.

    You’d probably be more than a little annoyed if I put a swastika sign on your front yard and then told you that you were infringing on my right to free speech when you went to go remove it.

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      11 months ago

      Companies are not people and private homes are not platforms for mass communication.

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        11 months ago

        I don’t think the government views video game mod hosts as so fundamental to a healthy society that they require strong limitations on their own freedom of speech, but you’re welcome to call up your representative and start a campaign for the ability to force Nexus to host Nazis if it’s truly important to you.

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          11 months ago

          I quit playing League of Legends when they made Groovy Zilean look like a crackhead because the CCP hates drug culture. Every form of media is training your kids.

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        11 months ago

        Your “freeze peach” only has to do with your government. You keep pointing out corporations aren’t people as if that had anything to do with this topic, but until you start paying taxes and owning land through Facebook, it’s a non-sequitur.

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          11 months ago

          I’m not claiming that the law governs this under free speech. I simply think that free speech is worthless if it’s only in places that go ignored.

          If a company is thousands of people, what is private about it? A thousand people can’t keep your secrets. FFS, Facebook is overtly selling access to them. The only ownership of Facebook is through stocks which just means the rich get to decide and the poor don’t.

          People actually sell houses and shit on Facebook though. Not sure if that can be used as a reason to regulate them or not. For one, it’s a pretty easy way to discriminate against minorities without directly implicating themselves.

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            11 months ago

            I’m not claiming that the law governs this under free speech. I simply think that free speech is worthless if it’s only in places that go ignored.

            So why are you forcing Nexus Mods to host this content? What does this have to do with “corporations aren’t people”? Why even bring that comment up?

            If a company is thousands of people, what is private about it?

            This is just more non-sequiturs. First off, private in this context is privately owned. It doesn’t matter how many people work for them, nor how “secret” a “secret” is if you tell it to everyone (which isn’t a “secret” to begin with). Second off, Nexus Mod’s work force, including community management, is thirteen people.

            What you think your free speech should mean, and what you think your country should do with mass media/popular social media has no basis in this conversation.