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What is free speech, what should be protected, and what is hate speech - I don't see a way forward to address these, as long as the first amendment is interpret
by spprashant 3y ago
What is free speech, what should be protected, and what is hate speech - I don't see a way forward to address these, as long as the first amendment is interpreted in its current form.
US Americans love quoting the first amendment to validate any and all arguments. Even political contributions are considered exercising of first amendment rights, making it impossible to regulate them.
How do we even expect growth driven social media tech bros to actually come up with a solution for this?
- krapp 3y ago>US Americans love quoting the first amendment to validate any and all arguments. Even political contributions are considered exercising of first amendment rights, making it impossible to regulate them. The US has numerous regulations on freedom of speech, and political contributions. We're not some sort of laissez-faire minarchy. >How do we even expect growth driven social media tech bros to actually come up with a solution for this? We had - and have - a perfectly effective solution that worked until around 2016, when for some reason people decided banning Nazis from the internet was a hate crime. To wit: if you don't want Nazis, racists or cranks on your platform, ban them. "BuT wHo DeCIdEs WhAt iS hAtE SPeEcH oR wHat EvEN iS A 'NAZI'" I can hear the keyboards begin to clatter in their indignant chorus. The person who owns the platform decides the rules. ...or you choose to become the Nazi bar and you accept that consequence. There really is no third option where you have "unlimited" freedom of speech without moderation and the Nazis don't show up and drive everyone else off. It's that simple.