the left doesn’t seem to understand what legal intervention here would look like. if the gov steps in social media platforms will not become *more* censorious, they’ll be forced to liberalize. any speech short of an explicit incitement to violence is constitutionally protected.https://twitter.com/mariachong/status/1137034789087670272 …
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...or precedent that private parties like Starbucks or Twitter or me at Thanksgiving are compelled to allow a virulent homophobic racist to shout slurs at other patrons, users and guests on the principle of the “censorship” boogeyman.
there is something of a slight difference between your living room and the globally-scaled, monopoly technology apparatus by which we publicly disseminate speech
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Sure. I agree that the monopolistic nature of the tech giants make this much more complex. If there were four equal-in-scope YouTubes, this conversation would be more simple. I still think egregious harassment can be banned.
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Bc you're for censorship of speech you dislike Maria.
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