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You are confusing the 1st amendment with free speech. Free speech is a broader concept than the 1st amendment. Free speech as a rule of exchanging ideas can exi
by temp8964 5y ago
You are confusing the 1st amendment with free speech. Free speech is a broader concept than the 1st amendment. Free speech as a rule of exchanging ideas can exist in any private and public space.
Facebook and other big techs do not have to support free speech. They can openly say: we don't support free speech and people who disagree with our employees should just shut up! Of course they don't want to do that. They choose to support the general idea of free speech and they can define their terms. People can criticize them. They can also declare they ban everyone who criticize them, but of course they don't want to do that too.
Why all those complexity? Because the American public support the general idea of free speech. Some Facebook employees' wishful thinking that they can control the speech on the largest social media platform won't work.
- amanaplanacanal 5y agoSomeone is already controlling that speech. The argument is about whether the way they are doing it is good for society or bad for society. Free speech isn’t even on the table here.
- 287324234234 5y ago> The argument is about whether the way they are doing it is good for society or bad for society. At least it's in an obvious way: to make the most money. For anything else we need to start defining "good" and "bad" which isn't so straightforward.