Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship
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Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship
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Re: Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship
#2They crossed a long time ago! They should have worked like phone lines, just a medium
Re: Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship
#3The idea that Facebook and Twitter have to censor content sometimes, but then need to be some protector of free speech in others, and apply this across the board in some magically apolitical way is ridiculous. Censoring speech in inherently political
Surprise surprise, the political party who gets to censor more content in their favor supports it and the political party who gets more of their content censored takes the free speech angle. If you can't see that it's a political game you aren't looking very hard.
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#4This Biden story was unlikely to cost him the election. But censoring it is going to be prime fuel for the right leading into the election and is a much bigger story than what was censored. This was a stupendously naive move.
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#5I strongly disagree. This thread breaks down the ridiculous nature of the claim and makes clear why the spread of (likely purposeful) misinformation in the lead up to one of the most impactful elections in US history.
https://twitter.com/dantoujours/status/1316844679783223297?s...
Re: Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship
#6They crossed a long time ago! They should have worked like phone lines, just a medium
I don't think it would work that well. Phone conversations are private and so there won't be much pressure to crack down on hateful or false conversations.
Social media is very public. I'd say it's closer to radio than telephone.
Re: Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship
#7They crossed a long time ago! They should have worked like phone lines, just a medium
Ueah this should have been the way it went, for facebook at least, but of course they _want_ to be a media company... they think they can take down traditional media and have got themselves into all sorts of problems!
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#8The first amendment right to free speech doesn't compel any company (whether publicly traded stock or privately owned) to give you a free publishing platform.
Re: Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship
#9The platforms screwed up by never generalizing. If they wanted to be neutral parties, they needed to aggressively API-ify each part of the social media stack and effectively become the AWS for social applications. This would have meant delegating UI, algorithms, moderation, fact-checking, authority, etc to the market and simply providing the primitives for executing on those elements. As it stands, they live in a half-way point between general platforms and media companies, as they have retained control over key parts of the media-distribution pipeline.
Re: Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line in Censorship
#10They crossed a long time ago! They should have worked like phone lines, just a medium
Then there would be less engagement and less profit... what are you a communist?
I'm kidding, but ad supported commercial promotion (broadcast) of speech (for additional profit/engagement) is pretty far from what I think the framers of the constitution meant as Free Speech (of the individual)... but then the Supreme Court has decided that money is speech (and corporations are people) so it doesn't matter what I think.