{"id":3838,"date":"2016-04-16T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T16:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2016-04-16T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T16:26:09","slug":"freezing-peaches-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/04\/16\/freezing-peaches-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing Peaches on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, I <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/03\/20\/clarifying-free-speech\/\">argued against<\/a>\u00a0a\u00a0narrow conception of free speech which is unduly\u00a0restricted to government interference alone, with no regard given to the innumerable non-governmental entities which mediate, influence, and control our speech on a\u00a0daily basis. Today, I bring you yet another example of a non-government actor shutting down speech: Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/TxFreethought\/status\/721354970700730368<\/p>\n<p>You can read more details on Reddit:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/r_atheism\/status\/721053992059584512<\/p>\n<p>The basic upshot here is that someone has taken to\u00a0abusing an\u00a0automated system to in order to shut down someone else&#8217;s speech, even though that speech was well within the parameters of Facebook&#8217;s stated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/terms\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>. This is not a government issue in any sense,\u00a0but it is plainly unethical behavior nonetheless.\u00a0If such\u00a0lighthearted criticism of religion can be so easily\u00a0removed from\u00a0Facebook, every other unapologetically anti-theistic\u00a0page is endangered, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Skeptic-Ink-151492854993103\/\" target=\"_blank\">our own<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20141021140108\/https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thethinkingatheist\">archive link<\/a>\u00a0to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/thethinkingatheist\" target=\"_blank\">The Thinking Atheist page<\/a>, which as of this writing remains offline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back, I argued against\u00a0a\u00a0narrow conception of free speech which is unduly\u00a0restricted to government interference alone, with no&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}