azuth@sh.itjust.workstoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's stopping corporate authoritarians from instantly shutting down all left-wing Internet content? Shouldn't we be preparing for that?English
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28 days agoNo they don’t. The 1st amendment only prevents the government from censoring people, not corporations. In fact the 1st amendment protects corporate censoring.
Nobody is asking ‘software’ companies to support software they didn’t write.
We are asking hardware companies to support their hardware and not use different software as an excuse not to replace faulty hardware.
They can reflash their own software to test if needed.
Of course hardware vendors could be legally mandated to adhere to standards to make things easier.