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Only moving to QRT so I can more easily write longer. On the open web speech doesn't have access to the algorithmic distribution systems it does on FB, especially FB. I think conventional free speech concepts are workable on the open web. FB is fundamentally different ...
2/ because of its core design to maximize engagement, place consumers in front of material that provokes or engages them. Much of this has spun out of control because of decisions FB made years ago, a mix of bad acting culture and its relative lack of connection to the rest ...
3/ of the web (compared to Google, for instance). In any case, the externalities creating by that system (being a platform for hate speech or disinformation, for instance) it must try to solve through other algorithms, scaled strategies because it operates at a scale ...
4/ that makes anything else impossible. Certainly the business model makes it impossible to police with humans in any real way. I don't think these problems are real resolvable. But FB is willing to keep making money while it's left unresolvable.
5/ The basic point is that FB uses alghorthms in a way that makes most conventional 1A thinking inapplicable and making distinctions abt core political speech at scale is, as you say, equally unworkable.
