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Cloudflare to stop censoring

jeudi 7 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Cloudflare plans to stop censoring political views.

I agree that we should not censor views, even views you or I consider odious. If such censorship is allowed, it will certainly be turned against the speech of Americans that criticize the politically powerful — which means, me, and you too I hope.

We need to redesign network communications somehow so that it doesn't encourage fake news and contempt for truth, but this must not be through censorship of certain views or we will leave the frying pan for the fire.

The New America Foundation advocates plutocratist politics such as making deficit reduction a priority. It is called "left-of-center" by right-wing activists. Their general strategy is to shift the overton window by labeling mildly right-wing views as "leftist", implying that the "center" is even more right-wing — somewhere between the Republicans and the plutocratist Democrats.

Most Americans agree with Bernie Sanders' politics; that's the real center.