This piece is ridiculous.
1) Stop conflating “free speech” with advertising and data mining businesses. Moderation is done for customers (advertisers), not for 1A, which does not apply to them.
2) Competition is great! Let it happen. It will take the power away from monopolies!
1) Stop conflating “free speech” with advertising and data mining businesses. Moderation is done for customers (advertisers), not for 1A, which does not apply to them.
2) Competition is great! Let it happen. It will take the power away from monopolies!
https://twitter.com/reason/status/1343604448241840131
3) The entire point of neo-Nazis, disinformation-peddlers and foreign influence operations using these big platforms is to recruit, amplify to more people and monetize. If they go to smaller platforms, great. But they don’t want to because they don’t have the reach.
4) The entire FrEE SpEeCH argument is blown up within this piece by the author. When you go to other, smaller platforms, you’re STILL POSTING! No one is being stopped from speaking their mind. They just don’t get to amplify. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom of reach. Duh.
At the end of the day, the worst people are going to find a way on to the Internet. No one is stopping that. But the idea that they have the RIGHT to spew bullshit on these platforms supported by *national advertisers* who are notoriously cautious is the dumbest idea of them all.
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