Lenins2ndCat to GenZedong • 2 years agoFederal court upholds law banning tech companies from censoring viewpointsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square11arrow-up138arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up138arrow-down1external-linkFederal court upholds law banning tech companies from censoring viewpointsarstechnica.comLenins2ndCat to GenZedong • 2 years agomessage-square11file-text
minus-square@anothertranscomrade@lemmy.mllinkfedilink13•2 years ago“For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press.” -Lenin
minus-square@GloriousDoubleKlink8•2 years agoYeah. He aint wrong. I used to critically support free speech as some ideal to uphold. But the past 3 years it has occured to me that what too many mean by free speech is to have the freedom to lie. Not like there’s a way to prevent people from speaking freely. These days, the whole freedom of speech thing just reeks of pure idealism.
“For the bourgeoisie, freedom of the press meant freedom for the rich to publish and for the capitalists to control the newspapers, a practice which in all countries, including even the freest, produced a corrupt press.” -Lenin
Yeah. He aint wrong.
I used to critically support free speech as some ideal to uphold.
But the past 3 years it has occured to me that what too many mean by free speech is to have the freedom to lie.
Not like there’s a way to prevent people from speaking freely. These days, the whole freedom of speech thing just reeks of pure idealism.