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> rights that are laid out in the constitution Just to be clear, under US law, what you are describing (creating a government censorship department that determ
by clucas 5y ago
> rights that are laid out in the constitution
Just to be clear, under US law, what you are describing (creating a government censorship department that determines how social media companies are allowed to moderate) would have NOTHING to do with the rights laid out in the constitution - it would in fact need to overcome the companies' constitutional rights to publish whatever they wish, just to exist.
You can argue that it's a good idea anyway, but claiming that government-mandated moderation is somehow enforcing constitutional rights is way, way off base.
- stale2002 5y ago> Just to be clear, under US law, what you are describing (creating a government censorship department that determines how social media companies are allowed to moderate Yes it could. The point is that if the government is doing the "censorsing" or whatever you want to call it, then at the very least, whatever that "censoring" is, we have judges and rights and similar checks and balances that prevents the government from doing too much. If something is so bad, that it needs to be censored, then our court system should handle it.