"Let me monitor and censor your private speech otherwise you won't be able to communicate with your friends and family on our platform they all use."
The apologetics for corporate-government fascism digust me. No, it's not okay for the ruling class to contract out their oppression to corporations any more than it is for them to use the government for that purpose.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It makes discussions tedious and nasty, as below. We're trying for something quite different here.
>"Let me monitor and censor your private speech otherwise you won't be able to communicate with your friends and family on our platform they all use."
This is how the internet has been for as long as I remember. When you use a website, you agree to its rules. Do people truly believe they are oppressed over this?
Corporations are absolutely involved in oppressing people at the behest of government or other ruling class, yes. If you were deluded into thinking otherwise.
You're okay if the government privatizes certain "problematic" services it provides and allows the now private organization to violate peoples' rights?
The apologetics for corporate-government fascism digust me. No, it's not okay for the ruling class to contract out their oppression to corporations any more than it is for them to use the government for that purpose.