Posted on 05/01/2022 3:37:03 PM PDT by DoodleBob
...But “free speech” in the 21st century means something very different than it did in the 18th, when the Founders enshrined it in the Constitution. The right to say what you want without being imprisoned is not the same as the right to broadcast disinformation to millions of people on a corporate platform. This nuance seems to be lost on some techno-wizards who see any restriction as the enemy of innovation.
In a culture that places a premium on achieving the impossible, some tech titans may also see the liberal consensus on acceptable speech as yet another boundary to break. In Silicon Valley, bucking the liberal conventions about harmful speech can seem like the maverick move. Jason Goldman, who was on the founding team at Twitter and served on the company’s board from 2007 to 2010 before joining the Obama Administration, says the tech rhetoric around free speech has become an obsession of the mostly white, male members of the tech elite, who made their billions in the decades before a rapidly diversifying workforce changed the culture at many of the biggest companies in Silicon Valley.
They “would rather go back to the way things were,” Goldman says, “and are couching that in terms of ‘free speech’ or ‘we’re not going to allow politics to be part of the conversation.'”
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Tech titans often have a different understanding of speech than the rest of the world because most trained as engineers, not as writers or readers, and a lack of a humanities education might make them less attuned to the social and political nuances of speech.
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Focusing on “free speech,” as a way to justify relaxing restrictions on the platform, he says, is just “an engineering solution to a political problem.”
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Charlotte Alter, who graduated cum lauded from Harvard, is a daughter of Emily Lazar and Jonathan Alter. Her father is an author and MSNBC political analyst, and until 2011 a columnist at Newsweek. He has written three books about American presidents and is a director of the 2019 HBO documentary “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists.” Until 2016 her mother was an executive producer of “The Colbert Report” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on CBS.
“The right to say what you want without being imprisoned is not the same as the right to broadcast disinformation to millions of people on a corporate platform. “
Actually you stupid bitch, that’s the exact same frigging thing!
> liberal consensus on acceptable speech
how about the conservative consensus on acceptable speech?
Tech titans often have a different understanding of speech than the rest of the world because most trained as engineers, not as writers or readers, and a lack of a humanities education might make them less attuned to the social and political nuances of speech.
Regarding the signers of the Declaration (yes..I know...not the Constitution...work with me), there were several lawyers, which was the most popular career at the time. Others were farmers, merchants, businessmen, writers and physicians. Some attended seminary, with a few ministers among them, while many were serving in public office.
Not a lotta engineers in that lot.
“But “free speech” in the 21st century means something very different than it did in the 18th, when the Founders enshrined it in the Constitution.”
Sounds similar to the argument libs make against the “anachronistic” 2nd Amendment. Are they going to use this same argument to eventually dismantle every other God-given right in the Constitution as well?
That’s because they’re not engineers. They grasp language better ‘cause, ya know, science and stuff. And racism...always racism.
The far-left is more terrified of free speech than they are of the China Virus.
That’s quite an accomplishment.
Turns out that Free Speech IS scalable....
Actually, it seems odd how all those Constitutional Rights mean something different today than they did in the 18th century.
These Mother Effers just a few years ago said Trump didn’t have the right to silence anyone on Twitter by blocking them! And they got a judge to back them up on it!
I hate communists!! Hate!!! Visceral Hatred!!!!
The Alter family still polluting the country.
First, they came for the Second Amendment...
That backgrounder on Atler is all you really need to know.
Like all true believing liberals, she probably has a very selective sense of “disinformation.” She probably had no problem with the “mostly peaceful” protests in 2019, 2020, and 2021 because of their self-evident truth. Ditto for BLM, CRT, and the 1619 Project. And you already know how she will answer and what you’ll be called if you dare ask her to define “woman.”
Well-educated, privileged, well connected, and articulate. Even possibly pretty in a health, middle aged way.
Pretty, but still an enemy of freedom.
More argle bargle word salad from the pseudo-intellectual class.
Don’t he fooled. Free speech means EXACTLY the same thing then as now. The same arguments people had 5,000 years ago, they still have them today.
Technology changes, human nature does not. Keep this in mind, please, the next time some quack calls the Constitution “antiquated” or archaic, or wholly unsuited to the 20th or 21st century or whatever other con game they are playing.
THEY CREATED the DISINFORMATION problem...
They are INCAPABLE of fixing it.
Time does not invalidate the Constitution or parts of it. States do by votes. Them’s the rules.
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