...Holds fat heart. Faints.
Twitter and Facebook are shooting themselves in head trying to be a judge of “hate speech” and political commentary. Its a bottomless pit and will end up destroying them.
Imagine AT&T or VERIZON monitoring telephone calls to decide what is “hate speech”. I see very little difference.
I think both are banned in Mainland China anyway so they know which side their bread is buttered on.
ChiComs have a huge netagandist effort and their 50 cent army.
If nothing else this makes it patently obvious that these social media platforms are publishers controlling their content and should be regulated as such.
The only news for months, about Twitter and Facebook, is who is being banned. Yet, any leftist will howl about how it’s not true, or there’s ‘no evidence’ of such, and snopes/politifact will say ‘false’ to the claims of censorship.
I want to ask, not a legal or constitutional question, but a question about what is good or helpful to society & freedom in general. Knowing all we know about how Twitter is used, does any society, ours included, NEED Twitter? Has it helped public discourse and relaying of needed information the public has not had access to otherwise?
No. No answer to that reflects of the constitutionality of a private company like Twitter, and no and am not arguing for a company like Twitter to be made illegal. My question is of a different sort, of our society overall and in general, because Twitter only exists because there is a sufficient body that does chose to use it. OK. But does a free society NEED it? Would our society be less free politically without it?
To me Twitter has NEVER fostered discourse, never brought opposing points of view together in any rational manner. It has mostly served as a megaphone used by opposing sides that never convinces anyone of anything, each just singing to their own choir. Your thoughts?
Oddly, Bashle's account claims he still lives in Mogadishu, Somalia.
This could be a fake account, but it seems to be protected by Facebook. Here's what you get if you try to report it:
One option is to go ahead and report the account, but then we find out it is obviously protected.
Any attempt to engage those accounts in a less than respectful way will be punished by an immediate ban.
Only because they got found out. Silicon Valley Scum.
