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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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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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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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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What? I live in Canada and our hate speech laws do not day what you think they do.
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But you have them! And somehow aren't just throwing dissidents in prison because the laws exist?
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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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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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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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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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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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You're right actually, Germany does, and it does get a lot of critique about legitimate speech that gets caught up in it. Its just not so simple.
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