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Personally I agree that certain platforms have become so toxic that a portion of the users are leaving or failing to participate as they had before because of t
by Powerofmene 9y ago
Personally I agree that certain platforms have become so toxic that a portion of the users are leaving or failing to participate as they had before because of the right to free speech that many exercise simply for the purpose of being rude, hateful, or crude.
I will always advocate for an individuals right to free speech but at the same time I feel that a mom should be able to post pictures of her kids without trolls coming along and saying they are fat or ugly or worse, making inappropriate sexual comments about them. I do not think our founding fathers had this type of speech in mind when they protected speech as that was an enactment of a different time.
The internet allows the worst in people to rear its ugly head and we find ourselves here, at a moment in time where we have to question if a business owner is overstepping boundaries by putting in place systems to protect people from scummy comments.
I recognize the difficulty in balancing the rights of opposing sides. Surely there is a solution. At least Systrom and Ev William's have lofty goals in trying to clean up the internet.