Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes...
The EFF is going to bat for fucking Kiwifarms? This is unconscionable.
If foundational human rights are for everybody, except those people. Then they’re for nobody.
You have to defend basic human rights for everyone, or they mean nothing
IMHO it only counts when you defend the rights of someone you disagree with.
Principles apply to everyone or no one.
People who harass other people to suicide don’t deserve to communicate freely. They have shown they are not responsible with that right.
Yes, and the ACLU has defended the KKK. It’s not a right unless it applies universally.
I think that was also a bad thing to do.
How is it a right if it isn’t universal? If it’s taken away from someone else, it can be taken away from you.
Society revokes rights from people who show that they cannot be trusted with them.