[kictanet] Twitter’s new policy will prohibit speech that treats others as subhuman

[Tony White]

You may have "Freedom of speech" - but you can't force me to listen!

If I own a social media network, or a web hosting company, or even
just a multi-user blog platform, *I* get to decide what is and isn't
acceptable.  Twitter is correct in this regard.

Where 'government' prohibits certain types of speech on *all*
platforms, no matter what, then this is why there might be protests
from those whose speech is curtailed.

Cheers,
Tony


On 27/09/2018, WANGARI KABIRU via kictanet
<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Twitter Proposes Banning Dehumanizing Content
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> "Twitter Inc. is planning to expand its rules to no longer allow content
> that treats others as subhuman in its latest attempt to replace toxic speech
> on the platform with healthier discourse. The new policy will home in on
> “dehumanizing” speech because “language that makes someone less than human
> can have repercussions off the service, including normalizing serious
> violence,” Twitter executives wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. The new rule
> would ban content that “dehumanizes others based on their membership in an
> identifiable..."
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> If this was the position of one of the Government Agencies, the hue and cry
> on freedom of speech, freedom of expression etc would've been drowning.
> However from a corporation, it becomes 'acceptable'.
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> Be blessed.Regards/Wangari
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> Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored
> Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on
> Earth".
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Tony White