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Originally Posted by woj
"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?
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Again, it is a different thing.
Let's look at it from a different, non-internet point of view. Twitter is basically a billboard company. They provide billboards and anyone can post anything they want on these billboards. Google Chrome is basically a car and websites are homes and businesses. So long as you are not breaking any laws, Google shouldn't care what you are doing with their car. If you go to a business they don't like or a house where you talk to people about things they don't agree with, it is none of their business because nobody is associating Google with those businesses and/or people. They also don't care what billboards you read. However, if you post something racist on the billboard, Twitter is providing the actual billboard that you are using and their name is directly associated with what you post.
To directly answer your question, no, I would not like it if I went to post something on a site like GFY and a pop-up showed up telling me "Chrome doesn't allow you to post that kind of content." However, I see Chome, Firefox, Explorer etc and Twitter as two very different entities. Chrome gives you a ride to a house. They don't care what you do at the house once you get there. Twitter provides you the billboard to post on and if they don't want people posting certain types of things on their billboards they should be allowed to remove people who try to do so.