Comment by h0nest_Bender on 21/02/2024 at 21:45 UTC

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View submission: Defending the open Internet (again): Our latest brief to the Supreme Court

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I'm a bit confused.

They're fighting for an internet that's open to their censorship.

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Comment by GaryOster at 22/02/2024 at 16:29 UTC

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At the very least they're fighting to protect the right for Internet communities to moderate themselves, or not, so they can survive and thrive as communities. What they're fighting against is the ability for people to say anything they want without consequence in communities those people don't own, the ability to spread disinformation and propaganda being one of my personal concerns. They're basically fighting laws which would allow the Internet equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater. The fight is for communities they don't own as well.

Comment by RevRagnarok at 22/02/2024 at 19:19 UTC*

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And don't forget the sweet Google AI training $$[1].

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1axablh/google_will_pay_reddit_60m_a_year_to_use_its/

Comment by Ging287 at 21/02/2024 at 22:40 UTC

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I don't support reddit in their intervention and removal, nay excision of 3rd party clients. They don't even let them have advertising. I hate reddit a lot less than the Christofascists who hate minorities, hate women, hate freedom, and now want a power grab over the Internet itself. Moderation is critical and crucial for a community. It's how everything that's "off topic" gets removed, it's how spam and ban evaders get dealt with, it's how blatant violations of the rules, appeals, and the like get handled. If you hate reddit, then you, by extension, hate democracy and the 1st amendment.