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Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not wa

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. - Eleanor Roosevelt That's a great question. Free speech doesn't mean lawlessness. There are many exceptions listed in the US constitution and those can be pursued by authorities to the degree they navigate IPFS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exceptions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce... For starters, we deliberately made a conscience decision not to make it easy to include photos or videos in content. We also made a decision not to create a general feed where all content is accessible.

smt88 5y ago
> For starters, we deliberately made a conscience decision not to make it easy to include photos or videos in content. So instead of censoring some photos and videos through moderation, you decided to censor all photos and videos. It sounds like you want to comply with US law, but US law requires censorship of some speech: libelous claims, copyrighted works, incitement to violence, etc. Why comply with some US law and not all of it?
- criddell 5y ago
  Maybe they are complying with the laws they agree with? I don't see any reason why it has to be all or none.
sleepybrett 5y ago
"make it easy" seems to be doing a lot of work there. What do you mean by this? Do you mean that because it's just a stream of bytes people could post all the child porn they like as base64 encoded strings? Have you just created alt. newsgroups again? Congrats on your brand new hive soon to be overpopulated with scum and villainy.
kristiandupont 5y ago
With a response like that you should consider going into politics!
drcongo 5y ago
Taking away my right to post photos. The irony.
- drooby 5y ago
  We have a right to post photos?
  - drcongo 5y ago
    No, which is kinda the point. Every platform makes decisions about what content is acceptable, this one has decided your hate speech is perfectly fine, but a photo of your dog is beyond the pale. Twitter, Facebook etc. all make their own decisions about what is acceptable for you to post on their platform, and so does this "free speech" platform.
    - azinman2 5y ago
      If the entire MO of this is to be “uncensorable,” and “undeplatformable”, I don’t think there will be too many ordinary dog photos. Clearly this will be a place for fringe elements who otherwise are getting kicked off bigger platforms, and somehow don’t want to use the existing alt platforms.
    - Brian_K_White 5y ago
      People get emotional and re-share pictures and videos more than text. A photoshop of a politician doing something they never did or a deepfake of them saying something they never said is a lot more infectious than a mere written claim of the same thing. It's only cencorship if they prevented that and NOT also your clearly virtuous and harmless pet video.
criddell 5y ago
Don't you think including a bunch of images on your landing page is contrary to the spirit of the service?
user-the-name 5y ago
That's a lot of words to not answer a question in any way whatsoever.
criddell 5y ago
How is this related to GetVocal?

smt88 5y ago

> For starters, we deliberately made a conscience decision not to make it easy to include photos or videos in content. So instead of censoring some photos and videos through moderation, you decided to censor all photos and videos. It sounds like you want to comply with US law, but US law requires censorship of some speech: libelous claims, copyrighted works, incitement to violence, etc. Why comply with some US law and not all of it?

criddell 5y ago
Maybe they are complying with the laws they agree with? I don't see any reason why it has to be all or none.

sleepybrett 5y ago

"make it easy" seems to be doing a lot of work there. What do you mean by this? Do you mean that because it's just a stream of bytes people could post all the child porn they like as base64 encoded strings? Have you just created alt. newsgroups again? Congrats on your brand new hive soon to be overpopulated with scum and villainy.

kristiandupont 5y ago

With a response like that you should consider going into politics!

drcongo 5y ago

Taking away my right to post photos. The irony.

drooby 5y ago
We have a right to post photos?
- drcongo 5y ago
  No, which is kinda the point. Every platform makes decisions about what content is acceptable, this one has decided your hate speech is perfectly fine, but a photo of your dog is beyond the pale. Twitter, Facebook etc. all make their own decisions about what is acceptable for you to post on their platform, and so does this "free speech" platform.
  - azinman2 5y ago
    If the entire MO of this is to be “uncensorable,” and “undeplatformable”, I don’t think there will be too many ordinary dog photos. Clearly this will be a place for fringe elements who otherwise are getting kicked off bigger platforms, and somehow don’t want to use the existing alt platforms.
  - Brian_K_White 5y ago
    People get emotional and re-share pictures and videos more than text. A photoshop of a politician doing something they never did or a deepfake of them saying something they never said is a lot more infectious than a mere written claim of the same thing. It's only cencorship if they prevented that and NOT also your clearly virtuous and harmless pet video.

criddell 5y ago

Don't you think including a bunch of images on your landing page is contrary to the spirit of the service?

user-the-name 5y ago

That's a lot of words to not answer a question in any way whatsoever.

criddell 5y ago

How is this related to GetVocal?