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If we're going to tie this to college campus censorship, a better analogy would be the tendency of many schools to ban speakers who might criticize the US forei

If we're going to tie this to college campus censorship, a better analogy would be the tendency of many schools to ban speakers who might criticize the US foreign policy orthodoxy on Israel/Palestine. That would have a different ideological narrative attached, though. But I think, fundamentally, the motivations for a big tech company are different from those of a university. Universities are most interested in preventing disruption on campus that might lead to bad press (and less donations). Big tech platform owners tolerate all sorts of flamewars and offensive or misleading content until governments start talking about regulating them, at which point they try to "self-regulate" by purging everything related to whatever the governments are getting worked up about. So you have at least two types of incentives that lead to censorship of various views, and it's inaccurate to claim that the college campuses are somehow the root of both.

2019-nCoV 6y ago
> If we're going to tie this to college campus censorship, a better analogy would be the tendency of many schools to ban speakers who might criticize the US foreign policy orthodoxy on Israel/Palestine. That's not who is being banned though: https://www.thefire.org/research/disinvitation-database/#home/?view_2_per_page=1000 https://www.thefire.org/research/disinvitation-database/#hom... > Big tech platform owners tolerate all sorts of flamewars and offensive or misleading content until governments start talking about regulating them, at which point they try to "self-regulate" by purging everything related to whatever the governments are getting worked up about. That's verifiably incorrect. The current administration abhors big tech censorship: https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1261692841136287745 https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/126169284113628774...

2019-nCoV 6y ago

> If we're going to tie this to college campus censorship, a better analogy would be the tendency of many schools to ban speakers who might criticize the US foreign policy orthodoxy on Israel/Palestine. That's not who is being banned though: https://www.thefire.org/research/disinvitation-database/#home/?view_2_per_page=1000 https://www.thefire.org/research/disinvitation-database/#hom... > Big tech platform owners tolerate all sorts of flamewars and offensive or misleading content until governments start talking about regulating them, at which point they try to "self-regulate" by purging everything related to whatever the governments are getting worked up about. That's verifiably incorrect. The current administration abhors big tech censorship: https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1261692841136287745 https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/126169284113628774...