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So in the case that participants on a social platform engage in trolling, harassment, and abuse (sometimes with bots), that company should not do anything? If
by GVIrish 6y ago
So in the case that participants on a social platform engage in trolling, harassment, and abuse (sometimes with bots), that company should not do anything? If some people who are attempting to exchange ideas and debate in good faith, are shouted down by people hurling epithets and death threats, the platform owners should shrug their shoulders?
When people openly promote and even plan violent attacks against others big tech should just leave things be?
- smsm42 6y agoI think we have more than ample proof of Big Tech companies blocking people not for abuse/bots but for expressing viewpoints that the platform management deems politically unacceptable. So let's not pretend that fighting bot abuse, spam, violent threats, etc. is the same as political censorship - the platforms can do one without the other, and actually have been doing it successfully up to about 2019, when they started increasingly censor by political views. And now political bans are pretty much commonplace. Once can pretend that it's all "fighting disinformation" and "preventing violence" but nobody is buying it anymore. It's political censorship, sometimes openly partisan censorship, and nothing more.