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RE: Blockchains are Fundamental to Online Freedom
Freeze Peach and telling your fans to burn queer people and kill minorities are two differing subjects. I had no problem with AJ until he started advocating for violent murder against minorities. That's not freeze peach, that's insanity and insanity should not be defended under any circumstance. It's not a principled issue imo. It's not so much what you say versus how you say it in this instance. I'll defend to death anyone who wants to say anything even if i vehemently disagree, but when we get to the discussion of genocide, murder, and commands for death of innocents, it's not a speech thing anymore. Words and actions aren't entirely separate and they have consequences.
I totally get that, and even respect that these companies want to create distance between themselves and that opinion. I just think there's actually a bigger agenda at play here and that Alex Jones is little more than a tool being manipulated or directly told to create an extreme case that will get people to demand government intervention. At the point that the government needs to get involved and tell private companies what they are and are not allowed to do or what is or isn't allowed to be said on their platforms, we're all losing. Just like what you said earlier about television being decentralized by YouTube. It only stays decentralized from the government until they are able to manipulate public opinion into asking them to get involved. Just like guns don't kill anyone, the person pointing the gun and pulling the trigger does, I don't think social media is trying to kill anyone. If people don't want him on a certain platform because of his violent outbursts, by all means, the platform or users should make a decision, but I really think this is more about trying to get the government involved and dictating what we can and cannot do online. That is what I'm 100% against.
Still, 1A does not protect against threats of violence and slander. They are very lenient on them, but not entirely against it. the right (and AJ) have perfected the "what we can get away with" strategy, which is why they cause such massive violence (neo nazi rallies like A12 starting tomorrow for example) but stay distant enough to not be jailed. It's a lot more horrifying than anything YouTube can do in the current era IMO