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"That’s what they need to address, picking and choosing opinions to block is a fig leaf move that’s more likely to backfire than improve anything." Counter poi
by pfisch 6y ago
"That’s what they need to address, picking and choosing opinions to block is a fig leaf move that’s more likely to backfire than improve anything."
Counter point - before social media that is exactly how it worked for the last 100 years. Newspapers, radio stations and tv stations were picking and choosing opinions to block.
This entire problem is actually being caused by the total removal of editorial discretion from sane people.
- simonh 6y agoI have no problem with platform owners editorialising. Well I do in some sense, if it's done in a shitty way, but that's an opinion and shouldn't be legislated. Editorialising on a publishing platform you own is a right I'd not like to see infringed on. It's a matter for free citizens to decide. If the public disagree with the editorialising, they can use another platform. It's freedom all round. It's not ideal, but the alternatives are worse.