This comment section is a painful read--when it comes to "free speech" this community somehow loses all sense of nuance or introspection. Facebook and Google "

This comment section is a painful read--when it comes to "free speech" this community somehow loses all sense of nuance or introspection. Facebook and Google "stifle free speech" every day when their algorithms pick losers. That the tech industry is manipulating the dissemination of information at a scale never seen before is undeniable. With that much power comes a great social responsibility, and it's clear (especially egregiously in Facebook's case--see Myanmar or covid for a more recent atrocity) that that responsibility is not taken seriously. How many people have died needlessly in this pandemic due to misinformation spread by algorithms that reward outrage? Was yellow journalism exactly the same? Should all speech be treated equal? How should our expectations regarding speech change when someone with an axe to grind no longer has to convince someone to print physical pamphlets and pass them out to people to reach a massive audience? What kinds of processes should be in place to prevent messages that may cause imminent physical harm to people from reaching millions? Who should be in charge of those processes?