(The article appears to complain that the John Birch Society were wrongly deplatformed, if you want to know how far out the author is)
Removing 60 Minutes from CBS doesn't stop people like you from on elsewhere.
Instead, it fuel them to post elsewhere.
Deplatforming didn't work, and deplatforming doesn't work now.
Let’s face it: those in the political sphere are disingenuous at best and outright liars at worst. Just because these politicians and political pundits were spouting ridiculous shit that are protected by their first amendment right, no company has to allow them to do so and expose them to the legal and political fallout from their commentary.
If some other company wants to shoulder that, woohoo for them.
Also: this is entirely anglocentric. I don't think you'd find anyone claiming that the Chinese government censorship system backfired or is completely ineffective. It's an even stronger system than billionaires over there.
You have completely missed the point of the article. So you didn't actually read the article and you're making a dumb claim based on a misunderstanding.
n4r9•1h ago
BobSonOfBob•40m ago
testdelacc1•16m ago
It doesn’t even lead to better discourse. We’re both here, commenting on this forum right? It’s because the level of discourse here is higher than elsewhere, certainly much better than “free speech” platforms like Musk’s. How can that be, when HN has extraordinarily strict rules on acceptable speech? Even calling someone an idiot can get you banned here, let alone a pajeet or Paki. If you truly believed in freedom of speech, you’d quit a forum moderated like this.
ch4s3•39m ago
I think it's just evaluating the claim that removing these people from a public platform removes their ideas from popular discourse, which obviously didn't work. The article is arguing that failing to engage bad ideas head on leads to increasingly insular an polarized groups within society.
vpShane•33m ago
Deplatforming removes a voice to a captive audience where one has entire lively hoods taken from them, their viewpoints suppressed and are forced to other platforms where the userbases are questionable offering their own infinite scrolls and dopamine hits and their own cancel cultures.
It is what it is.