Replacements for Firefox and Thunderbird?

[Bob]

** Reply to message from Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> on Thu, 14 Jan
2021 16:31:00 -0500 (EST)

> At Thu, 14 Jan 2021 20:13:03 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for
> general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 08:54:04PM +0100, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > > On 14.01.2021 20.35, Liam Proven wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > > > Removing hateful content is not censorship.
> > > </snip>
> > > 
> > > And who decides what's 'hateful'?
> > > 
> > So *anything* goes?
> > 
> > It's difficult I agree, but there has to be some sort of line drawn.
> 
> It should be noted that Google & YouTube are private (corporations) -- they
> are NOT required or obligated to host *anything* for *free*. Presumably if one
> *paid* for hosting service they would be obligated to host the content they
> would have been paid to host, depending on the terms of the hosting contract
> or agreement (eg read the fine print). They are not "common carriers" either.

That is the problem.  They presented themselves as common carriers to get
special exemptions from lawsuits.  Now they are deleting any post they don't
like or that they say is false information but only for certian groups of
people.


> There are any number of other places to host content. whether it is "hateful"
> or not.  Again, any *free* hosting site is within its rights to refuse to host 
> any material it objects to.  And paid sites generally have fine print in their 
> hosting contracts which likely state what is or is not allowed.

There are some other places to go because I did move to another site.  As soon
as larger groups of people moved there they shut down the entier web site.  So
now I still have only the large internet companies thet I can use.

The large internet companies need to be split up so they are not controlling so
much of the internet.

-- 
Robert Blair


Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.  -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)