Posted on 10/08/2021 4:35:37 AM PDT by EBH
Many argue that what Facebook and other platforms are doing amounts to “censorship.” I disagree. It comes down to the fundamental difference between a private platform refusing to carry your ideas on their property, and a government prohibiting you from speaking your ideas, anywhere, with the threat of prosecution. These are categorically different. The former is distasteful, unwise, and yes, perhaps even a tragic loss of opportunity; the latter infringes on our right to free speech. What’s more, a system of government oversight wouldn’t work, anyway: The entire issue with speech policies is that having anyone decide for you what speech is acceptable is a dangerous idea. Asking a government to do this rather than Facebook is trading a bad idea for a truly Orwellian idea. Such a move would be a far more serious threat to free speech than anything we’ve seen in the United States to date.
Unfortunately, executives at Facebook and Twitter have both been very clear that they think regulation is “inevitable.” They’ve even offered to help draft the rules. But such statements don’t confer upon the government a moral right to regulate these platforms. Whether a company or a person invites a violation of their rights is immaterial to the legitimacy (morally and legally) of such a rights violation. Rights of this type cannot be forfeited.
Moreover, the fact that these huge platforms are open to regulation shouldn’t come as a surprise. Facebook and Twitter are market incumbents,
No it doesn’t have that, because then it gets to define what is hate speech, and ends up denying the right to free speech.
FB and Twitter are quasi-government propaganda bureaus now.
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No such thing as hate speech. Completely idiotic term.
This premise might be valid for the print media but not for the internet which is akin to to radio and TV airways which are regulated by the FCC. Not to mention how other private monopolies were regulated like the electric companies and Ma Bell in the past.
Since our young people are the ones being shaped by these ideologies, something must be done. It's easy to say "stay off these platforms", but try telling that to a teenager. Someone way smarter than I am will have to solve this problem.
See post #4 and watch the video.
“WE THE PEOPLE are everything. They are nothing without us.”
“Facebook Has a Right to Block ‘Hate Speech’—But Here’s Why It Shouldn’t”
Facebook Has a Right to Block ‘Hate Speech’—But It Doesn’t
There, fixed it
Many argue that what Facebook and other platforms are doing amounts to "censorship." I disagree. It comes down to the fundamental difference between a private platform refusing to carry your ideas on their property, and a government prohibiting you from speaking your ideas, anywhere, with the threat of prosecution.LOL at the stilted definition of censorship.
WWII censors didn't bring any risk of prosecution. It was just government censors deciding what was safe to mail, and what was not. Sure, there were rules and I suppose that could be cast as prohibition.
Facebook and Twitter have prohibitions too. They decide what is allowed and what is not, and they even use "public good" and "safe" as princples that justify the restrictions.
But don't call it censorship? LOL again. It's censorship. Just as much as me self-censoring the F-bomb.
Government using private industry to do the dirty work -> fascism
I suppose there are more than a few ways around the controllers. Russian people got around their controlled information environment.
I suppose that when the powers that be are able to control information for two generations, then they are in high cotton until a popular rebel comes along. Happens from time to time, see “Reformation.” Maybe twice a millenium or so. Not that the revolution is bringing anything new to the world, just that blind people come to see.
Yep...and their reach and control is beyond any government. They don’t even respect concepts of free speech and do the governments bidding upon request, at least for leftists/communists.
Their mission is obviously control of narrative - so I don’t care if it is public or private, it is evil.
SCOTUS has already ruled that hate speech is protected by the constitution.
They side-step SCOTUS as well, by labeling the content violates their community standards. So in reality they deny free speech at their whim by what they claim is their community standards. so, to them even mentioning God is a violation.
The term hate speech is invented out of whole cloth as an excuse to censor freedom of speech for people to be silenced. Its an Alinski tactic.
Hate speech does not exist
But Facebook is more than a private platform because of its acquired monopoly status. But this does not mean that it needs to be regulated. Facebook should be classified as a common carrier and public utility, like the phone company. Rather than impose government regulation on how they should exercise their private editorial control, just take away that control in the first place.
How this gets accomplished is another kettle of fish.
Disagree. When you get big enough to act like government, you become a defacto government entity.
Hate speech is just a flimsy way to stop debate. Zuck hates a good argument.
I was blocked for making fun of Biden’s trannie, Richard (Rachal)Levine, by saying we need “EYE BLEACH” if we accidentally saw him(her). “HATE SPEECH!”
When I pointed out that Ed Gein, Norman Bates and Trannies were all trying to become women by different means I was again blocked. “HATE SPEECH”.
During the Olympics and a trannie from NZ was lifting weights, I pointed out that the nazis had a man run as a woman in the 1936 Olympics. Blocked as “HATE SPEECH!”
Then there is three times this year I was given 30 days 90 total, in FB jail.
On the other hand you can post the most vile memes with gutter language and no problems.
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