alt Hacker NewsCan someone explain how it's "censorship" that a company doesn't want their service used in particular ways?
If you don't like it... don't use it? Encourage others not to use it? I just don't see how this is as big a deal as many in this thread are implying...
(To say nothing of bias vs censorship, or whether balance for its own sake is truthful or just a form of bias itself)
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Some people take censorship as something that only governments can do which makes sense because unless a private corp has a monopoly (or a bunch of private corps has a cartel) on your area of interest you can vote with your wallet, yes?
But this is what the ACLU says “Censorship, the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are "offensive," happens whenever some people succeed in imposing their personal political or moral values on others. Censorship can be carried out by the government as well as private pressure groups. Censorship by the government is unconstitutional.” https://www.aclu.org/documents/what-censorship
So I don't know where many of us (my hand is raised too) have gotten the idea that it's not censorship if private corps do it but apparently that's not the case.
I will say that clearly because of the power that governments tend to have that when they do censorship it is much more pernicious –– depending on a person's moral code and how it aligns with establishment views of course –– so maybe that's where the feeling comes from?
This repository doesn't work on services, it modifies models that you can download and run inference on yourself. Are there any other pieces of software, or data files, or any other products at all where you think the maker should be able to place restrictions on its use?