Our AI-generated future is going to be fantastic.
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They recently refused to remove pro-Nazi content from their site, claiming that doing so doesnât make the problem go away so therefore thereâs no point in trying.
For me, itâs the refusal to demontize them thatâs particularly bad. I can understand free speech absolutists (in theory anyways, in practice youâll find that they VERY rarely actually are and will happily censor people they disagree with like LGBTQIA+ or sex work content), but that doesnât mean you need to actively be funding them!
This is a really good point. Iâm sure theyâre using a payment provider, so it might be worth it to go to them directly in the same way people have gone to advertisers to get Fox News hosts fired. The argument could be made that theyâre funding domestic terrorism by white nationalists. The payment provider might be much less willing to take on that risk in the name of âfree speechâ.
