4 ms·
The government shouldn't lean on a company to throw barriers in the way of speech. I really don't care what people want to pay to say, even if it is the horrib
by LanceH 7y ago
The government shouldn't lean on a company to throw barriers in the way of speech. I really don't care what people want to pay to say, even if it is the horrible "fake news" which some seem to think is a new invention.
Why does anyone need to know who paid for all advertising?
- Dotnaught 7y ago> I really don't care But it's not just about you. Speech, however it gets categorized, affects people and influences society. You can still say what you want (to the extent allowed by ad platform rules and legal limits on commercial speech) but you should also be accountable for what you say.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoSays the guy whose boot is stamping on the human race.
- jliptzin 7y agoYea I kind of agree. The antidote to fake news should be an educated population, not banning fake news.
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoThat's an appealing image, but we can see which of the those is easier to legislate... my instinct is the populace will voluntarily educate themselves only if they can feel the negative effects of 'fake news' in their lives in the short term. Given that we haven't seen much of an uptick in educated discourse online, I would hazard a guess that hasn't happened yet.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoWe already have an educated population.
- kevin_thibedeau 7y agoIt that were true "math class is tough" Barbie would never have existed.
- SamReidHughes 7y agoThat’s not a problem with education, people are just stupid.
- code_duck 7y agoI don't know. It sounds like that could be an attempt to lower the education level of the populace.
- kekdki939o 7y agoMoney doesn’t just “exist” like trees It’s a feature of a society Society can set rules on how it’s used. And it pushes “unspoken ones” constantly. There are exactly zero laws of physics that dictate the mathematical shape of our finance system. It’s all human negotiated grift to funnel the value of effort at scale into ephemeral objects we fetishize collectively Like sky wizards This isn’t sitting in a room talking to your friends about whatever you want Anyone can still do that Politically, free speech to me is emitting whatever syntax I want, and not obliging others to any discoverable semantic meaning they find, and having the same returned Too often free speech = I’m owed being who I want 24/7 in all contexts That’s a gross over simplification. Such a life is impossible to achieve without society picking up a whole lot of burden And really to regurgitate your last line: why do you care how private entities choose to do business?
- LanceH 7y agoI was quite clear I'm against the government leaning on corps to do this -- which is what is going on.