I disagree. In fact, I think it is very smart for him to pin some of the responsibility for these crimes on social media companies that are totally hostile to him and should be considered mostly off limits for any considers himself a conservative.
Agree.
There will come a breaking point with this stuff, and since it’s impossible to go back in time and provide the discipline and values that these kids needed 20 years ago, we’re faced wtih a Hobsons Choice: Either suffer through the consequences or try to find ways to deter some would-be mass killers before they act. (Note I didn’t say “pull the trigger” because we all know that knives, acid, bombs, cars, etc can equally lethal weapons).
Everyone agrees that these are learned behaviors, not one newborn baby is pre-programmed to become a mass murderer. So the challenge is to detect patterns early enough that intervention can be done, and the social media platforms are the best means possible to do that.
Monitoring gun purchases will just provide the names of millions of law-abiding citizens who are exercising their 2nd amendment rights.
Monitoring of comments and looking for trends on social media using AI and the same kind of algorithms that allow them to tell which purchase I’m likely to make next could provide some early detection. After all the “Grandma Story” that’s been posted on FR at least twice today is nothing more than a human doing pattern recognition and raising the alarm in time.
To those who say “Now I can’t support Trump” I say two things: #1, you never were a Trump supporter, and #2, you are an idiot.
He’s endorsing the FBI’s proposed thought-crime/pre-crime surveillance and action against American citizens.