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"For all intents and purposes, freedom of speech has flatlined in America." No - 'Freedom of Speech' is at an all time high. The internet gives every single p
by jariel 6y ago
"For all intents and purposes, freedom of speech has flatlined in America."
No - 'Freedom of Speech' is at an all time high.
The internet gives every single person a giant soap box to stand on.
You can communicate, in public, with anyone in the world.
25 years ago, you had no voice.
Now, everyone can be a 'journalist' or 'agitator' or whatever.
The level of open communication possible today was unthinkable 25 years ago.
25 years ago most people didn't have access to 'most news'. The NYT maybe was accessible by the elite in most towns, but the LA times was not. Now it's all available to everyone.
- yurielt 6y agoYeah but ten years ahorita you used to have a lot more freedom in the same platforms as you know that please don’t be dishonest
- jariel 6y agoThat's really not the case. These platforms haven't changed that much in terms of their policies. If you called someone the n-word or tried to coordinate murder of some public official you would be banned. Bannon was calling for Dr. Fauci to be beheaded a few days ago. That's what got him banned from Twitter. Gen. Flynn was calling for public officials to be executed. He was banned. Get it? Twitter has not really changed that much - the public, and their expectations of 'freedom of expression' in the face of politics has changed.
- yurielt 6y agoThat is very much the case and the policies of facebook and twitter have changed a lot, evne google removed the "dont be evil" from their ethics. People did much worse int he early days of facebook and twitter and facebook and twitter couldnt do anything because their guidelines werent made to censor things like that, let alone to particularly target a party as they do now.