Dnia czwartek, 23 stycznia 2014 17:56:16 Meredith L. Patterson pisze:
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 10:55:58AM -0500, Ted Smith wrote:
On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 11:29 +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
For example, Pax Dickinson was fired for crimethink
Pax Dickinson was fired for being a rampant misogynist. I can see how that would upset you, being also a rampant misogynist/racist asshole,
So, I'm not James, nor do I have much of anything in common with him at all, but I'm far more creeped out by Anil Dash's self-righteous chortling over his own perception of holding Dickinson's career future hostage than I am at Dickinson's firing.
"What is new in our time," Bertrand Russell once said, "is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices."
Thing is, today not only authorities have increased power to enforce their prejudices. Multinationals have sometimes even bigger power and possibilities as far as this is concerned -- just consider what Facebook can do in terms of censorship. Or Google. I'm not saying authorities and governments are not dangerous. I'm saying multinationals are as dangerous and we need to do something about it. -- Pozdr rysiek