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Banning social is the obvious logical extreme from this argument. They used Russian malice distributed via American social media as an example for why we need t
by COGlory 3y ago
Banning social is the obvious logical extreme from this argument. They used Russian malice distributed via American social media as an example for why we need to ban Chinese social media, which raises the great question of: why not ban American social media too?
- foobarian 3y agoMany countries institute bans on any political speech at all leading up to elections. I'm not sure whether this is beneficial or not, it may be well intended for all I know, but it would be very hard to justify in the United States due to the constitutional framework.
- fuzzbazz 3y agoIn the democratic ones it's just a ban on campaign ads and opinion polls for the 24-48h before an election and on the election day.
- yorwba 3y agoThe other, less obvious logical extreme is to consider why so many Americans would voluntarily consume foreign propaganda, figure out what makes it so compelling, and then produce equally or more compelling counter-propaganda. (But I think the unspoken part is that it's not really Chinese propagandists cooking up viral stories (they're way too boring for that) but instead Americans propagandizing to other Americans, which they have First Amendment rights to do.)
- caseysoftware 3y agoBecause American social media only drives color revolutions in other countries! Duh.
- threatofrain 3y agoAmerica social media is already largely banned in China. This would just be America lagging in the exchange.