The social media giants are taking heat again in the wake of another terrorist attack. Should they have chief editors I ask?https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/871414116367433728 …
Point is, we must be able to hold somebody responsible for hate speech, defamation etc.
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A) you can do that now. And b) you cannot control speech, locally or globally.
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A) I know but how efficient when there are fake accounts? B) Many countries have laws against hate speech. Germany well known example.
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A) fake accounts are tiny compared to misinformation spread by real ones IMO and b) Germans can sue Germans now, no?
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Obviously we disagree on what constitutes a media and what constitute open air and public space.
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Yes. I think it might be that we come from different legal cultures
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Probably so but I used to be a rock solid libertarian and free speech advocate until a few years ago when I lived through the war in Ukraine
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I understand that. War can challenge our beliefs. As we witnessed after 9/11 here, for example.
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Very much. The stability of a society is way higher on my agenda now. I would embrace a broad coalition here now for example. Never before.
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