Slade3200
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Haha, no… I’m talking about uncensored porn (penis in vagina) and out right violence (beheadings). And blantant terrors recruitment and planning. You really want all that stuff to flow freely through social media?!Porn and terrorist recruitment already happens on Facebook and Twitter and all the other social media platforms already so, Yeah. I dont personally like it but.... Killing people is illegal why would it be any more legal to post a killing on a social media platform?So would you say that violent killing, terrorist recruitment and pornography be permitted to freely flow through these sites? No regulation permitted at all?Thank God that Donald Trump is standing up for all of our first amendment rights. These companies are confiscating peoples right to free speech and if we let that happen, it's goodbye America.
Neither you, nor Donald Trump, have a coherent understanding of our First Amendment rights.
I would agree that a private company cant really violate a person's 1st Amendment rights (wasnt that the arguement about the NFL and the kneeling? Funny how everyone has switched stances on basically the same issue). That said these social media platforms have set themselves up as the defacto "public square" so there are, and rightfully so, concerns about their ability to squash speech they dont like. And make no mistake that's what's happening. They can say it's about lying or misinformation or violations of their terms of service but it's that they dont like what's being said.
They also enjoy protections against liable and other forms of litigation based on their status as a platform and not a publisher. Once you start picking and choosing which things end up on your platform I think you should probably lose that protection.
The other issue is why would we want them to stifle speech? Regardless of what's being said. I want people like David Duke to run off at the mouth about their dip shit ideas. It lets me know who they. You arent changing his or people like him mind by kicking them off twitter. Dumb ideas only go away when they are drug out into the sunlight and argued in the open so that everyone can see exactly how stupid they are. Pushing them into the dark only lets them ferment and I would argue gives the purveyors of the ideas credibility by making it seem like they are truths society is afraid to admit or deal with.
I would be ok with the platforms enabling a filter so you can get that type of shit off your feed, and bouncing producers of this type of content if they dont tag it appropriately. Again at least we know where it is and its out in the open.