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Newspapers regularly decline to publish letters to the editor from loonies trying to organize a coup. What is unprecedented is giving these loonies a huge plat
by lern_too_spel 6y ago
Newspapers regularly decline to publish letters to the editor from loonies trying to organize a coup.
What is unprecedented is giving these loonies a huge platform that helps them find like-minded loonies to organize while keeping them in an information bubble that shields them from corrections.
- istjohn 6y agoYet we never opened mail to protect society from loonies trying to organize a coup. We never censored phone calls. Social media is the modern mode of communication, and just because we can censor speech online doesn't mean we should. Free speech has always meant tolerating repelent speech.
- lern_too_spel 6y ago> Yet we never opened mail to protect society from loonies trying to organize a coup. We never censored phone calls. It would be prohibitively expensive to find enough like-minded loonies to organize a coup using telemarketing or physical mail marketing, and the act of doing so would annoy enough people that you would get shut down anyway. Deplatforming dangerous loonies on Facebook and Twitter is not a new thing. It already happened with ISIS.