Tech companies and governments sign up to Christchurch Call agreement
This just sounds like a giant can of worms that is going to blow up in people&#x27;s faces. Remove for a moment any potential future government alignments, just so we aren&#x27;t talking about hypothetical fictitious governments. Let&#x27;s just examine the governments currently signed to it.<p>Indonesia has harsh religious laws, crack downs on illegal reporting, and literally raids on LGBTQ gatherings. The Senegal government arbitrarily arrests dissidents, the LGTBQ community has to hide because it&#x27;s illegal, and protests are outlawed. India already overuses counter terrorism laws to charge dissidents and activists and there are religious minorities that suffer heavily from discrimination.<p>This type of call to action will only further entrench government strangles over freedom of speech. Now people have given them moral authority to curb an already very broad and ambiguous category of terrorists and now extremists. Sure I get it, there is a bunch of vile on the internet and the world would be a better place without it. But my &quot;better place without it&quot; is different from somebody else&#x27;s and so is the &quot;it&quot;. This won&#x27;t end up like what is in your head.<p>The hate isn&#x27;t &quot;spreading through social media&quot; the hate and the fear were already there. These people grew up with it. Social, cultural, religious, sexual, moral borders, you name it, every border we have is being rewritten and when you rewrite those borders, especially this quickly, people are gonna get scared, they&#x27;re gonna lash out, and because of it more people are getting scared and want to control one of the most powerful tools to freedom.