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If the free speech is replaced by only corporate approved speech - I don’t think it will be a better place. I’ve heard that Facebook was banning/suspending peop
by twobitshifter 5y ago
If the free speech is replaced by only corporate approved speech - I don’t think it will be a better place. I’ve heard that Facebook was banning/suspending people for discussions of the covid lab leak until last week. If the lack of speech gets people to leave Facebook altogether, it’s a positive for those people, but for the ones left in the echo chamber it’s definitely a negative.
- krapp 5y agoFacebook was never a free speech platform - if the definition of "free speech" is "no moderation" or even "moderation only of strictly illegal content." No popular social media platform is (because most people want some degree of moderation), except possibly 4chan, and even they have their limits.
- twobitshifter 5y agoI (gp) agree and would go further, there’s limits to free speech everywhere online and off. What the ggp was saying was that further limitations to speech are welcome. The level of speech control that changes from moderation to controlling the public narrative is what I caution against - and with the lab leak policy Facebook was already there.
- krapp 5y agoI don't believe that Facebook or any social media platform actually controls the public narrative in any meaningful sense, that argument is often overplayed to serve a politically motivated scare-narrative about a vast leftist conspiracy controlling the media. Facebook certainly couldn't do much about the public narrative in regards to lab-leak theories about COVID even when they banned it from their platform.