Fr. Josh Miller @Fr. Josh Miller - 12d
Cautiously optimistic about Trump’s plan to regulate censorship on the Internet. Really, what this does is remove power from the advertisers, who threaten to pull ads unless viewpoints they disagree with are censored. A publicly traded company can do nothing but bend the knee to these bludgeoners in the interest of shareholders, and private companies suffer via activism. Jack himself has spoken on this tension: what was right for the company in censoring and banning doesn’t translate to what is morally good. Removing the association of content from advertiser is a restoration of how things always were. Still, I want to see this universally applied. I heard about a college professor this morning, suspended for mocking Trump voters. As uncharitable, unprofessional, or dumb as this may be, the guy has a right within his office to use mockery in this way. The reality is that Left and Right use censorship as a weapon, and we must all arrive at a shared repugnance for its employ.
