>Here is the deal: the people most vocal about free speech don’t actually care about free speech. They care about speech being easily monetizable. That’s at the core of their complaints.
@grips >That aside, the funniest thing is that censorship isn’t an actual thing that’s really possible with the advent of the internet and file sharing.
The author is either willfully misrepresenting this or laughably naive.
@grips DNS blocking and rerouting, port blocking, IP blacklisting, SNI filtering, DoS and DDoS attacks, DMCA abuse, search engine manipulation, registrar banning, etc. Technology has only increased the ways in which censorship can be enacted.
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