Silicone Valley escalates war against alt-right

[midnight rambler]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/silicon-valley-escalates-its-war-on-white-supremacy-despite-free-speech-concerns/2017/08/16/842771b8-829b-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html?utm_term=.2439013d8cc9

[crimethink]

What free speech concerns? "Everyone" knows that "hate speech" is not free speech. :rolleyes:

[midnight rambler]

And of course 'hate speech' is anything I don't want to be hearing, something that *offends* me or hurts my feelings.

[JohnQPublic]

Silicone valley? :)

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[vacuum]

This is beautiful.

These massive companies who have monopolies are willingly giving up their monopolies and allowing a niche for competing services to get market share.

[crimethink]

This is beautiful.

These massive companies who have monopolies are willingly giving up their monopolies and allowing a niche for competing services to get market share.

Trouble is, the Internet is totally dependent upon a handful of companies that own the fiber. If this campaign goes as far as I'm anticipating, it will be next to impossible to host an openly "racist" or "anti-Semitic" site within a month or two. Any daring service, like https://bitmitigate.com/ - they just offered Anglin free CDN service - will be coerced to give in, or lose their upstream access. Even a Chinese registrar canceled Anglin's new registration today.

This campaign is like nothing we've seen before, and I've been "involved" since 1993.

[crimethink]

PayPal escalates the tech industry’s war on white supremacy

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/16/paypal-escalates-the-tech-industrys-war-on-white-supremacy/?utm_term=.f47b8056b1c4

[Joshua01]

WAPO? No thanks!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/silicon-valley-escalates-its-war-on-white-supremacy-despite-free-speech-concerns/2017/08/16/842771b8-829b-11e7-902a-2a9f2d808496_story.html?utm_term=.2439013d8cc9