Security quotes of the week
Security quotes of the week
Posted Oct 19, 2016 20:06 UTC (Wed) by Garak (guest, #99377)In reply to: Security quotes of the week by Garak
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and to clarify, I doubt that unless I went out of my way, I could get Facebook or Google to censor me for political or illegitimate legal reasons. However I still feel that the overall situation has effectively censored a(n estimated) majority of Free Speech on the internet. I believe that Google and Facebook and other Gatekeeper's dangling of broad censorship powers in their Terms Of Service, prevent a vast amount of speech because of the psychological effect of the presence of the Gatekeepers, including their long-winded mandatory finely printed legal contracts (Terms Of Service / Acceptable Use Policy / etc).
Not to mention the more technical aspects of presentation of text-string speech. Clearly Facebook and Google box you in to expressing yourself in the visual formats that they offer to their users. Wheras the FOSS home server operator has no such limitations on forming the wider aesthetics of their expressions (to the extent their software development and artistic skills allow)
