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This is the pluralist in me, but here's an issue that arises if major social-media platforms want to start policing the accounts of "dangerous extremists" with more granularity: Who determines what counts as a dangerous or extremist ideology?
If you look at the 20th century, one of the ideologies with the most corpses to its discredit was communism. So do postmodern socialists count as dangerous extremists?
What about essays arguing that one of the goals of criminal-justice reform should be to *increase* the violent crime rate? Some might think of that as a necessary revolution, while others might consider that a dangerous proposition. nplusonemag.com/issue-13/polit…
We live in a polarized time, so what ideological predilections count as "dangerous" will vary wildly from interest group to interest group.
And if social-media companies seek to act as ideological enforcers (especially when they engage in industry-wide coordination to enforce this agenda), many new cans of worms will be opened up.
