What David Heinemeier Hansson thinks about censorship
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.
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7 dated positions, 2021 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what David Heinemeier Hansson has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordswhat should we expect next? That it reports users for thought crime, and locks the network-connected doors until the authorities arrive?
- 17 months earlier
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Their wordsFifty raids in a day! For wrong speech, spicy memes, online insults of politicians, and other utterances by German citizens critical of their government or policies!
↗Leave it to the Germansworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAlthough I've yet to see the kind of grotesque enforcement -- six armed officers at dawn coming to confiscate a laptop! -- but the trend is none the less worrying all across Europe, not just in Germany
↗Leave it to the Germansworld.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsWhile America is recovering from the authoritarian grip on free speech in terms of both social media policies and broader social consequences
↗The social media censorship era is over (for now)world.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsFrom the UK to the EU to Brazil, China, Russia, and Iran, political censorship is very popular
↗The social media censorship era is over (for now)world.hey.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 2 years earlier
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Their wordsunless you take a stand for free speech in the cases most people would find repugnant, you'll gradually lose the right altogether
- 12 months earlier
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Their wordsDevelopers have suffered a litany of indignities under Apple's monopoly power over the years, and now they'll suffer a few more
↗Apple's new settlement is a corrupt jokeworld.hey.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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