I understand people are upset & worried about crazy insurrectionists right now, but I'll keep repeating that you will absolutely regret passing laws that say "social media cannot allow or amplify" such speech. Because such a law WILL be applied to BLM protesters too...
That argument applies to regulating food, too. (In fact, food I *do* like has been regulated into non-existence in the US). What I'm saying is that the logic of "it will be used against" is broad and applies to almost anything we do regulate.
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I don’t think you’re still grasping that regulating manufacturing isn’t the same as saying that speech may only exist in certain places & in certain ways. Obviously legally dubious, but it’s draconian and literally one of the first steps of autocrats.
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United States is practically one of the few, maybe the only, country in the world with this particular first amendment jurisprudence. One can express a preference for it, but the idea that nothing else is possible without turning immediately into autocracy is weak sauce argument.
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