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- Jul 7, 2019
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for those of you who don't know, reddit recently banned over 2000 communities without warning and under the pretense of racism. admittedly, there was rampant racism in some of them, but when you dig deeper you will realize that what they really banned was not the racism, it was the criticism of the platform and an obvious attempt at silencing certain political views. they even banned large feminist and lgbt groups that are critic of certain ideologies that are being pushed as facts or simply because they politically align more to the right.
this is not the first time that something like this has happened on an internet platform, youtube and twitter have done it many times and now there's a lot of pressure from advertisers to make facebook follow the same path. censorship is now rampant on the internet and it's only getting worse and worse by the day. remember 10 years ago when you could say whatever you wanted on the internet and if you didn't like something you could just look away? those days are long gone by now.
feels very weird when big tech and ultracapitalistic companies are in control of almost the entire political discourse, there is no place for a common ground when thinking differently means that you no longer have a voice. And I don't identify myself with any political group, if anything, I'm left in my country but apparently far right in the shitty US politics where extremism is the norm nowadays.
My issue with this is not about the politics involved, the problem here is that freedom of expression is dying a slow and painful death. and the people supporting this shit should know that when they are done censoring and deplatforming voices that they don't like, the big companies are going to do the same for them.
this is not the first time that something like this has happened on an internet platform, youtube and twitter have done it many times and now there's a lot of pressure from advertisers to make facebook follow the same path. censorship is now rampant on the internet and it's only getting worse and worse by the day. remember 10 years ago when you could say whatever you wanted on the internet and if you didn't like something you could just look away? those days are long gone by now.
feels very weird when big tech and ultracapitalistic companies are in control of almost the entire political discourse, there is no place for a common ground when thinking differently means that you no longer have a voice. And I don't identify myself with any political group, if anything, I'm left in my country but apparently far right in the shitty US politics where extremism is the norm nowadays.
My issue with this is not about the politics involved, the problem here is that freedom of expression is dying a slow and painful death. and the people supporting this shit should know that when they are done censoring and deplatforming voices that they don't like, the big companies are going to do the same for them.