> To Systrom, it’s pretty simple: Freedom of speech does not mean the freedom to shitpost. His network isn’t a public square; it’s a platform people can choose

> To Systrom, it’s pretty simple: Freedom of speech does not mean the freedom to shitpost. His network isn’t a public square; it’s a platform people can choose to use or not. When pressed on the matter, he asks, “Is it free speech to just be mean to someone?” Jackson Colaco makes the same point more sharply. “If toxicity on a platform gets so bad that people don’t even want to post a comment, they don’t even want to share an idea, you’ve actually threatened expression.” Yes, it is free speech to just be mean to someone. The fact that this man is a leader of anything at all troubles me. Neural Nets and computers aren't impartial. We should never be putting any power into them to affect real human discourse that NLP cannot possibly hope to accurately parse at this time.