"Our company does not believe a website or social networking site has the authority to censor what you see and post and hide information from you, stop you from seeing what your friends and family are posting," the email reads. "This is why with the amount of concerns, we have made this decision to block these two websites from being accessed from our network."
It's cute, but it's not really effective without explicitly banning everyone on their system from seeing it. They're only blocking it for people who are requesting it to be blocked.
However, this really is the level of force that needs to be conducted against Big Tech. A recognition that if there are no rules, then there are no rules.
Why are you selling clothes to people who work at Twitter? Why are you selling vehicles to Amazon? Why you you unlock the front door to Twitter HQ if their card-reader broke? Aren't you concerned that their allowing the potential endorsement stochastic terrorism?
Are you an Amazon employee? Make your own burger. Your money's no good here.
It's ridiculous, obviously. But force has to be met with force. These are arguments solely from power. The response can't be on principle. It can only be from power.
I was really iffy on what I thought of their move, particularly the first read through before I worked out it was by request only. Just didn't make sense to me, you know the concept of Twitter pissed us off, so in retaliation we are going to piss off our own customers, most or all of which had nothing to do with Twitters censorship decisions.
I like your idea way better, hit them back directly. "Sorry, we don't serve Twitter employees. We are a private business we can do what we want." It's a perfect taste of their own medicine.
Kek. Ultra based.
Muh private cumpenny bans Trump, gets ISP banned.
God bless Idaho, god bless Your T1 WIFI!
It's cute, but it's not really effective without explicitly banning everyone on their system from seeing it. They're only blocking it for people who are requesting it to be blocked.
However, this really is the level of force that needs to be conducted against Big Tech. A recognition that if there are no rules, then there are no rules.
Why are you selling clothes to people who work at Twitter? Why are you selling vehicles to Amazon? Why you you unlock the front door to Twitter HQ if their card-reader broke? Aren't you concerned that their allowing the potential endorsement stochastic terrorism?
Are you an Amazon employee? Make your own burger. Your money's no good here.
It's ridiculous, obviously. But force has to be met with force. These are arguments solely from power. The response can't be on principle. It can only be from power.
Here's the post every republican CEO should read.
I was really iffy on what I thought of their move, particularly the first read through before I worked out it was by request only. Just didn't make sense to me, you know the concept of Twitter pissed us off, so in retaliation we are going to piss off our own customers, most or all of which had nothing to do with Twitters censorship decisions.
I like your idea way better, hit them back directly. "Sorry, we don't serve Twitter employees. We are a private business we can do what we want." It's a perfect taste of their own medicine.
Unfortunately, it needs to be mass. Just start writing that in contracts. Anyone affiliated with Twitter: you get nothing, fuck off.