Right now anyone with an IQ above room temperature can log on to Facebook or Twitter or U-tube or the rest of them and post any damn thing he pleases. And it goes world wide. A bunch of Islamic terrorists have claimed they were recruited sheerly thru watching terrorist propaganda on Facebook and U-tube.
The owners of the platforms are the only ones who know how to delete posts, cancel log in privileges, and post comments. We have to trust them, or shut their platforms down. I think the platform owners right along have been deleting material that is clearly offensive, pornography, nudity, sex acts, snuff videos, pedophilia, BDSM, Islamic terrorist propaganda, KKK propaganda and worse. They ought to keep on doing it. Maybe step it up some.
Then we come to individual posters who post all sorts of poppycock, anti Semitic, white supremacy, Nazi, alien invasion, and other weirdo ideas. I think maybe we ought to just leave them alone. Much of it is so weird that no body pays it attention. The offensive stuff can be replied to by those who have been offended.
And then we come to posters who are elected officials. Since they got themselves elected they have support from a majority of their constituents. That’s a lot of people who think they are OK. Same goes for opposition politicos from the major parties. As a platform owner, I myself would be extremely reluctant to censor an elected official for fear of offending a lot of people and inviting retaliation. I think the Twitter people are crazy to censor the President of the US. He has brought them all sorts of viewers/readers/tweeters. If Twitter doesn’t like what Trump tweets, surely they can find some anti trump tweeters to respond to the Donald.
If we are really unhappy with the platform owners, then we can get the anti Trust lawyers to break them up. Facebook is clearly a monopoly. We would be better off with two sites competing for viewers/readers/pageviewers.
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