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People often want free speech when it favors their side, and they will likewise rationalize against free speech when it doesn't. We should be able to talk and t
by mattwilsonn888 4y ago
People often want free speech when it favors their side, and they will likewise rationalize against free speech when it doesn't. We should be able to talk and think about laws outside the very specific political context of the day, but Reuters cannot help but remind the reader that free speech online may enable 'violence' and that this ruling is a win for all sorts of people associated with Republicans and Donald Trump - as if to say you are somehow associated with such viewpoints because you have libertarian views on what thoughts people are allowed to be exposed to. It reads very biased.
- DangitBobby 4y agoFree speech online in this context cuts both ways. People are allowed to espouse views online that may lead to "violence", and the people that work and pay to keep online platforms running are allowed to scrub words they don't like from the platform they own. It's absurd that they could be compelled to display the dumb shit some people say.