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I don’t understand why these people complain about “freedom of speech”. Freedom of speech doesn’t apply to private services.
They want freedom from the consequences of their shitty speech
Being a bigot and spewing hate speech is just a difference of opinion!! You all should have to listen to me or I’m being censored!!
Sartre said it…
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
That’s true of educated bigots and what have you, but there’s a sizeable part of the population that’s ignorant and genuinely believes the crap they spew.
Ironically, it does apply to corporations - just not in the way that you think.
Corporations have the right to freedom of speech - meaning they can choose to allow whatever the speech they like. Consequently, they can also choose to disallow whatever speech they don’t like.
Wut?
Meta/Twitter/whoever are also protected by the 1st Amendment when it comes to deciding what they allow on their platform.
A law or ruling that forces social media companies to carry specific speech is unconstitutional.
Well I probably wasn’t going to use Threads and this makes it a definite no.
And the willfully ignorant morons flocking to that site still somehow manage to delude themselves that it’s not going to become an alt-right breeding ground. Even though that’s true for, oh, I don’t know, literally all of Meta’s other products.
This story has nothing to do with technology. It’s purely sociological and political.
This isn’t Reddit. Let’s be better.
The Reddit exodus made things worst.
