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What are your thoughts on Internet censorship?

Asked by Cruiser (40449points) November 18th, 2016

Read today that Twitter is suspending accounts of select Twitter uses that powers that be there don’t agree with their views. I also saw and read how Facebook filtered negative news stories about Hillary and other stories favoring Trump and the Republicans and I believe they also suspended select conservative accounts.

Wiki has an interesting read on Internet Censorship and they did a survey of 10,000 net users around the world and some of the results are…

“In a 2012 Internet Society survey 71% of respondents agreed that “censorship should exist in some form on the Internet”. In the same survey 83% agreed that “access to the Internet should be considered a basic human right” and 86% agreed that “freedom of expression should be guaranteed on the Internet”. According to GlobalWebIndex, over 400 million people use virtual private networks to circumvent censorship or for increased level of privacy”

Should the internet offer the same protections of the First Amendment?

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