You've blasted a talking point in response to an assertion that I did not make. There is a significant distinction between a platform choosing to censor, and acting like all platforms have some duty to censor. There are many such calls for the latter in this thread.
FWIW I have previously argued that platforms have a moral obligation to carry less popular speech, but I'm done arguing that after the "stop the steal" propaganda campaign. What's happening now is inevitable, and the real solutions for Freedom are mandated interop (mitigating Metcalfe's law), and/or p2p communications (which has always been the correct answer before AJAX was even a term, albeit economically non-lucrative)
> I'm also happy that they've set up shop in a place that is fair game for the entire law enforcement and intelligence apparatus in case they try to plan more insurrections.
There's that authoritarianism peeking out - "they can go their own way, but we'll hit them with a bigger stick". From a technical perspective, being outside the US seems harder to surveil. US users will continue to use HTTPS and post public comments, so nothing changes there. Meanwhile the session traffic from foreign troll farms becomes invisible. Pushing social media away from domestic firms is actually a national security misstep, IMO.
FWIW I have previously argued that platforms have a moral obligation to carry less popular speech, but I'm done arguing that after the "stop the steal" propaganda campaign. What's happening now is inevitable, and the real solutions for Freedom are mandated interop (mitigating Metcalfe's law), and/or p2p communications (which has always been the correct answer before AJAX was even a term, albeit economically non-lucrative)
> I'm also happy that they've set up shop in a place that is fair game for the entire law enforcement and intelligence apparatus in case they try to plan more insurrections.
There's that authoritarianism peeking out - "they can go their own way, but we'll hit them with a bigger stick". From a technical perspective, being outside the US seems harder to surveil. US users will continue to use HTTPS and post public comments, so nothing changes there. Meanwhile the session traffic from foreign troll farms becomes invisible. Pushing social media away from domestic firms is actually a national security misstep, IMO.