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    1. Chris Dupres  🇨🇦‏ @blaktron 21 Jan 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @mmasnick

      Yeah and its been used in a lot of ways that make people uncomfortable and we wrestle with it. And we have 0 laws about social media companies and what they can or can't moderate.

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    2. Chris Dupres  🇨🇦‏ @blaktron 21 Jan 2021
      Replying to @blaktron @zeynep @mmasnick

      Hes not making a slippery slope argument, he's making the argument that the exact laws you are arguing for will be used to suppress the most critical speech, not the worst speech.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Jan 2021
      Replying to @blaktron @mmasnick

      And what I'm saying is that it's the US that's the exception in the democratic world, so the argument that this is "inevitably" going to lead to suppressing most critical speech is either not very strong, or, in its strong form, applies to almost all regulation.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Jan 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @blaktron @mmasnick

      But I'm not getting a better answer, so I assume that's the form of this argument... It will "inevitably" lead to suppressing critical speech.

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    5. Chris Dupres  🇨🇦‏ @blaktron 21 Jan 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @mmasnick

      Ok, no one has a law you are describing that has major social media companies except for like Russia and China. So yeah, laws that literally direct private companies to suppress speech will lead to suppressing speech the lawmakers dont like.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Jan 2021
      Replying to @blaktron @mmasnick

      Are you serious? Almost all of Europe does. Wow. So does Canada. Australia. New Zealand. This US-centric view is.. peculiar, especially given the US is the exception here, not the norm. I think I have my answer here. Okay...

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    7. Chris Dupres  🇨🇦‏ @blaktron 21 Jan 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @mmasnick

      What? I live in Canada and our hate speech laws do not day what you think they do.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Jan 2021
      Replying to @blaktron @mmasnick

      But you have them! And somehow aren't just throwing dissidents in prison because the laws exist?

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    9. Chris Dupres  🇨🇦‏ @blaktron 21 Jan 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @mmasnick

      A) they only apply in very narrow situations with a power imbalance and b) yeah, they have been used to throw people in jail who shouldn't be. And would, in the USA, definitely be used more against dissidents than Keegstras

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    10. Chris Dupres  🇨🇦‏ @blaktron 21 Jan 2021
      Replying to @blaktron @zeynep @mmasnick

      We threw MaVeN in prison for pirating movies and he died there. We are not a beacon of freedom in that sense.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Jan 2021
      Replying to @blaktron @mmasnick

      Well, if Canada is your example of the slippery slope of authoritarianism... (By the way, US already has draconian copyright laws that are used to restrict speech all the time).

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        2. Chris Dupres  🇨🇦‏ @blaktron 21 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @mmasnick

          Im just saying that laws forcing social media companies to deal with the situation you are facing will a) not solve your problem and b) create other problems. Its literally that way in other countries and no democracies have laws forcing private companies to deal with hate speech

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Jan 2021
          Replying to @blaktron

          I'm going to leave this here: "no democracies have laws forcing private companies to deal with hate speech" is completely untrue. You may think it's unwise to do so, but it's the US that's the exception here.

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