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Comment by throwaway_1237 | Hacker News Reader

He’s just gonna do it again. He doesn’t back down, he always doubles down.

Even Merkel denounced the decision of big tech to do what they did. It’s so easy to see where cheering for this type of behavior leads to. Stop supporting big techs overreach just because it’s someone you disagree with.

Merkel prefers that governments are not bound by first amendment protections. I would not take her political opinion as applicable to America.

Sincere question: Do you have any ideas regarding how to mitigate the use of these platforms to disseminate disinformation and to incite and organize violence? Or do you not see it as a problem? Or do you agree it’s a problem, but one that we have to live with as part of the price of free speech?

[...] in the words of the Supreme Court - where there is time for better counsels to prevail, the remedy for speech is more speech. [...]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55640437

This is the American way. Europeans have a different approach to it and they do ban certain speech outright.

Free speech itself is the problem. If it's free, then as Forrest Gump says' "You never know what you're gonna get."

If some manager, somewhere, or even 'some random worker' can decide what you're going to get, then it ain't free speech. End of story.

"one that we have to live with as part of the price of free speech?" Yes.

In the words usually attributed to Voltaire: “I wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it.”

It really would be surprising if he was able to reign in his worst tendencies until and after the 20th.

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