> the 'start' of all of this was platforms banning Trump.
People have been talking about deplatforming for a long while. Quite clearly, all of this stuff started a while ago, and has escalated quickly since then.
Slippery slope is less about a direct cause, and more of a direction. IE, it is talking about how things are escalating.
"AWS terminates its relationship" I would consider major internet infrastructure kicking off a service with millions of users an escalation from where we were a couple years ago, which was more along the lines of "a couple nazis are kicked off of twitter", yes.
Quite clearly it is a more significant action to take down a service with millions of users, than it is to ban a couple people on twitter.
> There's multiple platforms drawing a line on acceptable speech
And those platforms has escalated things over the last couple years. In the past, there was less people being kicked off of various parts of the internet/critical infrastructure, and now there are more people/services being kicked off of critical network infrastructure.
That is an escalation.
Even yesterday, I did not even consider that AWS would get involved in this somehow, and now look where we are.
What is going to happen tomorrow, I wonder? Or the next day and the next? I could not guess at this point.
Will ISP's start kicking people off? Possibly. Maybe even phone companies and common carriers will start doing it (even though if a common carrier did it, this would literally be illegal).
TBH, It really does not feel like that much of an escalation to say to that ISPs or common carrier might start doing this eventually. They don't feel significantly different than other critical infrastructure.
Take your guesses now about what is going to happen next, and see if you were right.
People have been talking about deplatforming for a long while. Quite clearly, all of this stuff started a while ago, and has escalated quickly since then.
Slippery slope is less about a direct cause, and more of a direction. IE, it is talking about how things are escalating.
"AWS terminates its relationship" I would consider major internet infrastructure kicking off a service with millions of users an escalation from where we were a couple years ago, which was more along the lines of "a couple nazis are kicked off of twitter", yes.
Quite clearly it is a more significant action to take down a service with millions of users, than it is to ban a couple people on twitter.
> There's multiple platforms drawing a line on acceptable speech
And those platforms has escalated things over the last couple years. In the past, there was less people being kicked off of various parts of the internet/critical infrastructure, and now there are more people/services being kicked off of critical network infrastructure.
That is an escalation.
Even yesterday, I did not even consider that AWS would get involved in this somehow, and now look where we are.
What is going to happen tomorrow, I wonder? Or the next day and the next? I could not guess at this point.
Will ISP's start kicking people off? Possibly. Maybe even phone companies and common carriers will start doing it (even though if a common carrier did it, this would literally be illegal).
TBH, It really does not feel like that much of an escalation to say to that ISPs or common carrier might start doing this eventually. They don't feel significantly different than other critical infrastructure.
Take your guesses now about what is going to happen next, and see if you were right.