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Well, yes? Was that ever in question? The issue will always be the moral question of who decides what gets banned and what sort of oversight they are under. I
by moksly 5y ago
Well, yes? Was that ever in question? The issue will always be the moral question of who decides what gets banned and what sort of oversight they are under.
I still think platforms should be held accountable for the content they let users post the same way traditional media platforms are. It would break YouTube and Facebook and other platforms that operate on automatic moderation, but maybe that’s not such a bad thing.
The way things are moving forward, the platforms still aren’t held accountable for anything. Not when they remove content either. Which means the moderators will mainly be the advertising industry and not what’s in public interest.
I think Donald Trump should have either been de-platformed long ago, or not at all but really. And you can really insert any public figure that gets de-platformed when the timing is right to do so and not when they break the rules. I don’t think that’s the real issue though, I don’t see why any democratic politician should ever engage on these anti-democratic platforms. I’m not an idiot of course, I know perfectly well why they do so, but it’s brought us to a world where it’s a select few tech-billionaires who get to decide what’s suited for their platforms and what isn’t, and that’s just wrong.