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by mlyle 1387 days ago
As I was discussing in the previous thread, I disagree with this.

> Someone defines what gets removed. Ideally in a democracy "society" as a whole decides what that is.

Ideally, many smaller elements make their decisions about what speech to promote or convey, and "society" or the "government" is the actor of last resort-- stepping in for the most not-OK stuff when the market has been shown to fail.

Concentrated power is dangerous-- whether it's in the hands of a government or a single overly-powerful commercial actor-- and needs to be restrained one way or another.