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Comment by Latty

This is the fundamental issue when the public square is owned by a company.

I don't think anyone can solve that. You can't disallow moderation in a space, otherwise you just have people screaming at you all the time. If there is freedom of expression, you can't then also force people to platform things they find abhorrent. The freedom to express surely also includes the freedom not to express.

I don't think there are easy answers, and "people should have to have the firehose of the internet sprayed at them unfiltered" seems like a bad take to me.

The spread of propaganda to undermine the democratic process is chilling.

parent Latty 5 years ago

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