So much for mass media being champions of free speech. They only champion freedom for their own monstrous megaphones. Everybody else keep quiet and let self-appointed "journalists" dominate our discourse. https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1027669651264888832 …
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Replying to @NickSzabo4
I don't understand the argument that privately owned companies are supposed to be unfiltered outlets for free speech on their own platform. While that would be great, you can't get mad when privately owned platforms choose not to provide channels for certain content.
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Replying to @almostcalibred @NickSzabo4
While I appreciate your point on private companies, these corporations (FaceBook, YouTube) have become so big & powerful they are in themselves like governments. Think about it. Twitter & Facebook seems to have been intertwined w/ politics a lot lately (Cambridge Analytica, etc).
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Replying to @JamesTodaroMD @almostcalibred
Exactly. The people repeating the oblivious cliche "they are private companies they have a right, period", as if there is no big problem or that principle somehow solves the problem, have become quite tedious.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @JamesTodaroMD
What do you believe the solution is? I agree it is a huge issue. But these companies need to make money, not piss off advertisers, and keep shareholders happy.
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Replying to @almostcalibred @JamesTodaroMD
When you kick off somebody who draws in a huge number of eyeballs for advertising, there is far more than mere rational market forces at work.
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P.S. Alas I don't know of a good solutions, only a couple bad solutions that may or may not be good enough: (1) decentralized social ntworks, which being open source tend to be user hostile (2) laws protecting property rights in the investments of social ntwrk users
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