You know, free speech and all?
A year after Charlottesville, why can’t big tech delete white supremacists?
Bear in mind here, that this is the Guardian, so “far right” means anyone to the right of Trotsky. It’s a euphemism to describe the deplorables who voted for Trump in the USA and those xenophobes and racists who voted to leave the EU on this side of the pond. It is simply used to indicate “does not agree with me” these days, so is meaningless as an epithet or as a description.
However, despite the fact that the big tech companies are increasingly getting into bed with the left, the fact that they do not always delete the “far right” is a positive – okay, possibly through incompetence, but take a glimmer of hope where you find it. For, even if the stuff being posted is vile, the best bleach is always sunshine, not to push it underground, for it will not go away.
It always comes back to the “I disagree with everything you say, but defend to the death your right to say it” that the left so vehemently wishes to deny. It is they who are on the extremes, it is they who are vile.
And, yes, I agree that what happened at Charlottesville was a dreadful tragedy. However, it is no excuse to stifle freedom of speech, for this is what the activists seek to do.
Have I been misinformed?
I understood the tragedy at Charlottesville ran something like this:
Man in car gets caught up in congested street as a result of a demonstration
Thug with club jumps on car roof and proceeds to batter his way into car
Car driver, in legitimate fear of his life, tries to extricate car from congested street
Women protestor in roadway is run over in the process
So the principal cause of the tragedy was said thug, attacking the driver with weapon, was it not?
And the victiom was partially culpable by being in the road, not on the pavement, in the vincinity of traffic, and violence, when the traffic might reasonably wany to excape being clubbed to death?
Sorry, my sympathy is with the car driver, who is now portrayed as unspeakable evil, for doing everything any sensible person would, to protect himself and his passengers.
Or was this all a lie?
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