If they get a liability shield, they shouldn’t get to control what happens on their platform.
Just a very tall autistic man who likes flashlights, star wars, memes, free speech absolutism, net neutrality & the right to full bodily autonomy for all.
If they get a liability shield, they shouldn’t get to control what happens on their platform.
Illegal shit is already illegal. That’s not what I was talking about.
But these private platforms have a liability shield. If they have a liability shield, they shouldn’t be allowed to censor things.
Racism will expand if you censor it.
How many racists have a big audience? And I mean openly, explicitly racist. Not the dog-whistle racism from Fox news.
People have been censored by automated systems for just criticizing racists. Yes, that means that all the people who call them out for being shitty get censored too.
Supporting free speech means allowing people you hate to talk too. Censor a Nazi one day, then the next day it’s something your weird friend likes, then the next day it’s something you like.
Everyone deserves a platform online, but they have to earn their audience. Censoring them is only going to make more people hear and see what they have to say.
As if you ever took me seriously before.