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Originally Posted by kane
There is a difference here. If Google decided to block Chrome users from accessing certain sites that they don't agree with, that is censorship. However, that is different than what is happening because the people making those sites are not using Google to broadcast their hate speech. The website(s) in question likely have no affiliation with Google whereas when someone posts some racist stuff on Twitter, Twitter itself is now affiliated with it since they facilitated that post.
My position is very simple. People are free to say whatever they want, however, companies are not required to facilitate that free speech if they so choose.
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"facilitate" is a bit ambiguous... is using a web browser to post on gfy comments that some might find offensive "facilitating"? I would think so, without a web browser, I would be unable to do so [as easily...]...
so by that logic, there would be nothing at all wrong if browsers tried to stop me from posting offensive comments? "you are about to post comments that some might find offensive, we are sorry but firefox is a 'safe space compliant' browser, we can't let you do that!"... such a feature would be completely ok in your book?