In recent years, we’ve been witnessing an increasing trend of tech platforms choosing to de-platform certain content creators based on their speech. What if these tech companies one day just conspired to cut you off of their services? What would you do? How would you operate in a world that’s almost entirely digital?
Hi Katherine. Thank you for this factual perspective that I had little understanding and knowledge of. Difficult to think what might be a solution; but it also seems that by design one is lacking. This type of censorship reminds me of reeducation camps except localized.
Intelligent people are generally appreciated until they start marching to the beat of their own drum. God forbid anyone becomes independently thoughtful.
What if the private company’s right excuse is government’s way having the company be the cat’s paw to attack the people?
Why would corporations banish customers unless if there’s a literally fascist alliance between them & Govt? Govt can threaten “Nice business you have here. It would be shame if something happened to it.” Then if the threat is disregarded, make good through antimonopoly actions against laggards. To intimidate the others.
You (and your interviewees) hit many nails on the head in the debate between rights of the company and rights of the artists, but what makes it clear that most of these companies aren’t merely expressing their rights but are abusing them is how much their decisions lack transparency. In addition, doing things like keeping the funds and then not only acting as though the artist was paid and thus must get taxes but when called on it making the artist get a tax representative to work things out clearly shows their motivation is to punish the artist not to simply express their right to publish what they see fit.
Anyway, thank you for shining a light on these stories. And good job to the artists who continue producing art that challenges our thinking even when it makes us uncomfortable!
Hi Katherine. Thank you for this factual perspective that I had little understanding and knowledge of. Difficult to think what might be a solution; but it also seems that by design one is lacking. This type of censorship reminds me of reeducation camps except localized.
Intelligent people are generally appreciated until they start marching to the beat of their own drum. God forbid anyone becomes independently thoughtful.
What if the private company’s right excuse is government’s way having the company be the cat’s paw to attack the people?
Why would corporations banish customers unless if there’s a literally fascist alliance between them & Govt? Govt can threaten “Nice business you have here. It would be shame if something happened to it.” Then if the threat is disregarded, make good through antimonopoly actions against laggards. To intimidate the others.
You (and your interviewees) hit many nails on the head in the debate between rights of the company and rights of the artists, but what makes it clear that most of these companies aren’t merely expressing their rights but are abusing them is how much their decisions lack transparency. In addition, doing things like keeping the funds and then not only acting as though the artist was paid and thus must get taxes but when called on it making the artist get a tax representative to work things out clearly shows their motivation is to punish the artist not to simply express their right to publish what they see fit.
Anyway, thank you for shining a light on these stories. And good job to the artists who continue producing art that challenges our thinking even when it makes us uncomfortable!