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It's almost like it's a country of 300 million people with a diverse set of views. The group that outright wants social media banned in the US, talks down Zuck
by Fade_Dance 1y ago
It's almost like it's a country of 300 million people with a diverse set of views.
The group that outright wants social media banned in the US, talks down Zuckerberg, etc, by and large will be perfectly fine with other countries banning it if not celebrate it. You have built a strawman.
The "free speech" cohort is largely anti-banning. They want platforms like X, where anything goes, and are often quite militant about their views on this subject.
- DangitBobby 1y agoI for one think both "social media is bad" and "free speech is important" which puts me in a real bind. Turns out when you let bad faith actors accumulate billions, the outcomes of the systems they create aren't always great.
- scrollaway 1y agoIt's just people here deciding pretty blindly that the two are mutually exclusive, but they're not, any more than eg "Nestle is a bad company" and "I like Nescafe" would be mutually exclusive. And there's always the question of who gets to be the arbiter of those things.
- monkaiju 1y agoIf the latter were consistent it'd be much more interesting. X banned most large leftist accounts after Musk took over, so like most "free speech" advocates they really mean they want to be able to say hateful rightwing speech.