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Is there a difference between someone being charged with a crime for a joke, or simply having the joke removed from the platform it was posted to? I tend to thi

• dominotw 4y ago
  > I think platform censorship is a completely different beast than government persecution and prosecution. Yes but the complaint here is that of its effects on free speech. They are equivalent from that perspective, no?
  • plorkyeran 4y ago
    No, having to worry about your content being removed and having to worry about retribution do not have equivalent effects on free speech.
• cestith 4y ago
  Platform censorship by the owner of the platform isn't a First Amendment issue. The FBI asserting government pressure to convince or coerce the platform to remove it is government censorship. Where the line is drawn between a polite request and coercion is ... tricky when you're talking about the federal government in an era of increasing pressure to regulate social media.
• Nifty3929 4y ago
  I agree with you - though as platforms are becoming more tightly regulated and "pressured" by various government agencies and interest groups, I believe the line is blurring. We're seeing our large corporations become de-facto arms of the government.
  • genewitch 4y ago
    > We're seeing our large corporations become de-facto arms of the government. was there ever a time when they weren't? Or, if you prefer, limit it to industrial revolution to contemporary. Crony Capitalism and lobbying were decried by the "founders" and the architects of the document that the supreme court ostensibly makes its rulings based upon. and yet...