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...
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Replying to @mmasnick
This is an argument against all laws, though. You may wanna make an argument against this particular idea, but the structure of your argument applies to every single thing we regulate—without exception.
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Replying to @zeynep
I don't think that's necessarily true. In fact, it's not true.
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Replying to @mmasnick
The argument: If we pass a law saying "[some powerful entity] cannot do Y" it will be applied to X. That applies to every single thing we regulate. In fact, people in power *do* try to use laws (too) broadly for almost any law we do pass.
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That’s misrepresenting his argument. Curtailing speech for the people you dislike will inevitably, as has happened countless times here and around the world, be used against the people you like or even yourself.
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Replying to @AmagiAlpha @mmasnick
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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Replying to @AmagiAlpha @mmasnick
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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It’s a fundamental precept of this country. We value freedom as Americans. What you’re advocating for, to curtail speech for people who aren’t you, has never worked...in history. People flee places that do that. I’m not sure if you’re just trolling at this point.
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You got me, what do I know about authoritarianism, just trolling. Cheers.
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