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> Democratically maybe?

But...we did that. And the answer arrived out through representative democracy thus far is:

(1) For matters where no legal liability, or only civil liability (except for sex trafficking, and copyright law which has its own special rules) would be involved, mostly leave it up to the free discretion of each online provider to determine and address unwelcome content.

(2) a whole bunch of crime-specific rules in criminal law, including (relevant to recent events) an absolute prohibition against knowingly providing any good or service (with narrow medical and religious exceptions) that will be used in “terrorism” offenses.


> mental gymnastics required to adopt authoritarian and undemocratic ideals to "combat fascism".

It is a paradox, after all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance


> Why should Silicon Valley play the roll of unelected police-state.

Since when is a corporation deciding not to do business with someone equivalent to throwing them in prison?




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