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by kbenson 3231 days ago
> Twitter sat ladies that cry bullied this big IT companies to deny service for Daily Stormer caused webpage to not be accessible.

It's no different than a club cancelling a comedy booking because they don't want that type of comedy at their club, because they don't think their patrons will support it.

> People who enjoyed this style of humor cant enjoy it anymore. This is very definition of censorship.

No, it's not. They can go somewhere else. They can find a different provider, or publish a pamphlet or go to a street corner. You know what it means as a comedian when you can't book a club? Not enough people are interested in what you have to say to make it worthwhile to give you a pulpit, or at least not enough people to offset the distaste you cause in others. That's not censorship, that's social pressure.

Censorship is about ability and rights. Nobody is restricting the ability or rights of the daily stormer. It's still legal to post what they want, and they have avenues to do so (with enough money, they could become their own host). Freedom of speech is just as much about letting the daily stormer say what they want as it is letting cloudfare and others decide they don't want to support it.