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To test the strength of this argument, I'm imagining a world in which ads have invaded our homes even further, and can now be found on the refrigerator door, th
by dorkwood 6y ago
To test the strength of this argument, I'm imagining a world in which ads have invaded our homes even further, and can now be found on the refrigerator door, the bathroom mirror, and the bedroom ceiling. Would you consider switching off political ads in those places to be relinquishing your duties as a democratic citizen?
- crazygringo 6y agoThat's not the argument I made. A healthy democracy needs to have places for democratic discussion. Not all places need to be for it -- that would be terrible. But some places. Today, those places are mainly TV news/commentary, newspaper/magazine reporting and analysis, and Facebook+Twitter. Each of them have different strengths and weaknesses. Eliminating any of them for political speech would be a huge loss. To expand beyond them (into your home and refrigerator), you'd have to make an argument that it served a purpose that wasn't already served by the three domains I already mentioned. Which I don't see an argument for. You're posing a "slippery slope" argument here, but I don't think that applies.
- dorkwood 6y agoOh, I see. I'm not actually a Facebook user, so I didn't consider it to be a place for political discussion. I suppose that's the source of our differences. Edit: Just to clarify, I used it many years ago, but it was really just for sharing photos with family and friends.