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I am all for private businesses' right to censor their platforms as they please. But let's consider why they do so. Amazon and others aren't banning "covid diss
by entropyneur 6y ago
I am all for private businesses' right to censor their platforms as they please. But let's consider why they do so. Amazon and others aren't banning "covid dissidents" because they are worried about people's health nor is it because of some evil conspiracy. The reason is simple and obvious: because they've determined it to be the best course of action PR-wise. Or in other words, it's because what the public wants.
And that is where it stars to rub me very, very wrong way. Just think about it. Not only the average Joe knows exactly how this totally novel global problem with a shit ton of unknown variables should be handled (that's par the course). But he's so certain of his knowledge that he wants anyone trying to voice a different opinion to get the treatment that was previously reserved only for obvious dangerous crazies like the nazis. To me this is the empirical proof that the slippery slope does exist, unfolding before our eyes.
- _-o-_ 6y agoAnd how average Joes form opinions on complex subjects? They don't. Opinions are hammered into general public by a limited number of major media platforms or independent influences.
- js8 6y agoThere is this logical error that comes with elitism. People are generally simple, therefore must have been manipulated by a much smarter "center". But what if opinions on complex subjects are instead formed as an emergent phenomena of interactions of many humans? It reminds me of Cartesian theatre, the idea that there has to be a central place in the brain where "real decisions are made".