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Free speech is an incredibly difficult ideal to uphold and I think it is unfair for governments to delegate that responsibility to tech companies.
by dkobia 6y ago
Free speech is an incredibly difficult ideal to uphold and I think it is unfair for governments to delegate that responsibility to tech companies.
- eppp 6y agoFree speech in the constitution applies to the government, it has absolutely nothing to do with tech companies managing their own products. No one is delegating anything.
- lordloki 6y agoFree speech is a natural born right of all people. This is recognized in the first amendment to the US constitution, where it specifies that as a human right the government cannot regulate it. As the "public square" moves from physical locations to virtual ones, the responsibility to defend those natural rights moves from one host(US Government) to another(large online media companies). While the US government is not officially delegating the defense of these rights, defense of these rights must be maintained and it is the responsibility of the host platform to do so.