What do you think of tech companies doing the censoring themselves? Their service, their rules would be my view. Specifically I'm thinking of Cloudflare versus Daily Stormer.
I don't think there is clear cut answer to that question.
It may depend on the company in question. For Google that supplies 78% of all search results it is probably dangerous to allow them to decide what to favor and what to censor.
For a smaller service provider like Cloudflare, I am not so sure.
It will be interesting to see how it would go down in court.
I am not a lawyer or legal expert by any means, but if the courts decided that business have to serve the public, for example forcing a baker to bake a wedding cake for a gay wedding, I can see a court forcing Cloudflare to host content they don't want to host.
Now the interpretation of the law today would not support that because minority opinion holders are not a protected class, but the court extends its power all the time and I could see this leap being made, although it is unlikely.
It may depend on the company in question. For Google that supplies 78% of all search results it is probably dangerous to allow them to decide what to favor and what to censor.
For a smaller service provider like Cloudflare, I am not so sure.
It will be interesting to see how it would go down in court.
I am not a lawyer or legal expert by any means, but if the courts decided that business have to serve the public, for example forcing a baker to bake a wedding cake for a gay wedding, I can see a court forcing Cloudflare to host content they don't want to host.
Now the interpretation of the law today would not support that because minority opinion holders are not a protected class, but the court extends its power all the time and I could see this leap being made, although it is unlikely.
All in all interesting stuff to ponder.