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> I hope conservatives that use the "social media is a public square" argument will finally approach logical consistency and call for a publicly-owned, federall
by xigoi 4y ago
> I hope conservatives that use the "social media is a public square" argument will finally approach logical consistency and call for a publicly-owned, federally managed Mastodon site that upholds all the free speech they think people should have.
Not a conservative, but I support free speech and I'd definitely like such an instance. What point are you trying to make?
- unethical_ban 4y agoThe stereotypical conservative supports the right of businesses to do pretty much whatever the hell they want, but gets mad when Twitter or Facebook tries to moderate disinformation and hate speech. But they also hate government being useful or providing public services to anyone, so they would likely oppose a government-funded "public square" platform. And surely, they would be upset when that platform inevitably has to moderate hate speech and veiled threats and trolls, who would then have even more credence to complain about "censorship" since the government would be doing it, causing even more shit. Basically, I am saying conservatives have conflicting views on the rights of businesses to conduct themselves when they try to say Twitter must let them say nazis are cool and vaccines don't work.
- xigoi 4y agoAs I said, I'm not a conservative, so I can't reply to this.
- unethical_ban 4y agoYou asked what point I was making.