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Alex Stamos doesn't realize that the political tides have shifted. The technolibertarianism that has been prevalent in Silicon Valley since at least the 1990s i
by IBM 8y ago
Alex Stamos doesn't realize that the political tides have shifted. The technolibertarianism that has been prevalent in Silicon Valley since at least the 1990s is on its way out. Governments around the world are increasingly asserting their sovereignty, and that's not going to change. The internet is not a wild west where a bunch of tech people are free to do whatever they want, ignoring all the consequences and negative externalities they create.
It's a coincidence that John Perry Barlow died at the height of all this, but I think it's extremely symbolic that governments are asserting their power just as technolibertarianism's radical cleric passed away.
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- golemiprague 8y agoIf tech companies just accepted the first amendment as it is they would have much less problems and will have to police much less than what they do today. The government doesn't request from them anything more than the law of the specific land. The problem is that those tech companies run by people who lean left ideologically and as such they got butthurt from the recent political wins of the right all over the world. So they want to censor based on their ideology, not based on what the law allow or not allow. I don't see the government coming to arrest Alex Jones, it is tech companies that banned him, not even because of hate speech, just because they don't like his brand of humour. It won't help them because right wing people hold this ideology not because of some Alex Jones rant, this is just a classist assumption, they support it from various real reasons and no censorship is going to change it.