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That would be the case if Twitter was a small shop that held a dozen people.
If my name was Stalin, I would love the way Twitter is currently set up. Facebook, too. He who controls the information, controls the public.
But you're the one arguing that the government should send them a notice saying:
"You've become too powerful, we set your rules now."
Well intentioned rules to begin with, for sure.
Also - let's look at the actual issue with censorship. Let's take the Hunter Biden stories. The real problem was not twitter blocking links to articles. I read many many articles about the censorship. The real issue was left-leaning sources not reporting on it.
Regulating social media doesn't fix that.
Right. What you're really talking about is implied consensus through coercion. But the problem is that social media is the explicit tool used to enact that coercion. It's manufacturing consent.
What's hilarious to me is that this is one of those bizarre scenarios in which conservatives would whole-heartedly agree with an idea formulated by Noam Chomsky.
Agreed. But I think we'd have to get very heavy-handed with government intervention if we were to try and legislate that coercion out of existence.
Social media allows groups of ideologues to coerce others. Twitter is just the tool of the day.
I think we need to learn how to deal with the impulse to coerce.
This is what happens when you decentralize media power.
Again, public square. There are multitudes of things you can and cannot do in a public square. This is not rocket surgery. We've had this stuff 99% figured out since the 19th century.
It's simply not that hard.
Practically what you're saying is that large online forums must have zero moderation - outside of illegal acts.
Not quite, but you're getting warmer.
I guess my perspective on no censorship online is informed by places like 4chan.
Online forums without moderation can devolve into filth pretty fast. (Filth is not necessarily illegal)