You cannot have a true free-speech platform, because it will be overrun with people trying to ruin it by posting neo-Nazi crap and all kinds of other stuff. There has to be some level of moderation.
I guess I mean free speech under the terms Musk has stated.
Although in a free state anyone should be able to state any kind of opinion, barring lewd or profane speech, threats of violence or pornography.
Not in a free speech society. Hell you can buy nazi stuff all over the internet. Do you plan to censor capitalism also.
That is a fascinating assertion, but an assertion nonetheless. Whether neo-Nazi (which still is National Socialism but somehow "new") to neo-colonialist or whatever, once the Overton window's curtain is closed in to suppress, the only remaining question is "by how much?"
A line or two of code can accomplish this, but as we all have seen, someone can spell using alternative gaming of the system, such as sh"t or the use of spaces such as sh it, to bypass until the gaming is spotted and "line of code" is amended.
It comes down to a purist's argument. How much "free" is there in "free speech."
The answer might lie elsewhere, as these often very unsocial media entities be regulated by legal publisher status, and then have to defend their "publishing."
As to "free speech," I have been named as among the "morons" here on Free Republic, not to mention other fine assertions. I think one is free to write freely.
Until one is not. The remaining question is always how "not" is acceptable in a free society.
Hmmm...not sure I agree. I think there are less neo-Nazis in the world than we are lead to believe. Now if you said it would be over run with Muslims making death threats, I agree that it would. (as is the case for facebook). Still not sure there should be moderation. Unless the moderation is delegated downwards. Sorry I don’t use Twitter so I have little idea how it works. But I think it would be a good compromise if there are local moderators for specific pages on twitter. NOT from above.
“You cannot have a true free-speech platform, because it will be overrun with people trying to ruin it by posting neo-Nazi crap and all kinds of other stuff. There has to be some level of moderation.”
I thought that was what the blocking feature is for?