Posted on Apr 4, 2022
Elon Musk purchases stake in Twitter after slamming its approach to 'free speech'
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Good, now clean em up...
I get that a private org has the right to censor whatever information they wish on their platform.
I also get that people genuinely misuse these platforms to pass on dis-information, propaganda, and outright lies.
But I have no problem allowing people to post such information, as long as they are not breaking the law and/or posting lewd content. Let us see people for who they are and if they want to post stupid stuff on the Internet, let them. But also, be consistent in the policies you issue. If you claim to not have any bias and you're willing to censor a President while other heads of state are allowed to continue posting hateful, divisive, violent lies, you have a problem.
I get that a private org has the right to censor whatever information they wish on their platform.
I also get that people genuinely misuse these platforms to pass on dis-information, propaganda, and outright lies.
But I have no problem allowing people to post such information, as long as they are not breaking the law and/or posting lewd content. Let us see people for who they are and if they want to post stupid stuff on the Internet, let them. But also, be consistent in the policies you issue. If you claim to not have any bias and you're willing to censor a President while other heads of state are allowed to continue posting hateful, divisive, violent lies, you have a problem.
Elon Musk purchases stake in Twitter after slamming its approach to 'free speech'
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I generally agree but the problem comes around lewd content. This is where things start to fall down. What's lewd? We've now opened the door for some content to be censored, who gets to decide what's the good content and what's the bad content?
I'm sure many of these platforms are starting to make value judgements and thinking that perhaps some pictures of boobies are less problematic for society than, let's say anti-vaccination material. We've kind of opened that door as soon as we start saying, they should allow this stuff in except for this other stuff we don't like. Well who gets to decide what is in and what is out? Do private corporations do it? Does government? Should people self select (so "lewd" is back in)?
I'm sure many of these platforms are starting to make value judgements and thinking that perhaps some pictures of boobies are less problematic for society than, let's say anti-vaccination material. We've kind of opened that door as soon as we start saying, they should allow this stuff in except for this other stuff we don't like. Well who gets to decide what is in and what is out? Do private corporations do it? Does government? Should people self select (so "lewd" is back in)?
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Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
Some things are obvious, but considering Twitter is for 13 up, how about we keep it PG-13 in general? But your questions are already being posed, just far beyond lewd content, and for good reason. Private media and broadcasting corporations have entered into agreements to post ratings for TV and movies, similar efforts could be made for Twitter. In the end, nothing will be perfect, and some people have a different perspective of what could be subjective content. However, this is minor compared to the way Twitter and others are deciding what is appropriate content and what isn't. They've taken it to a completely different level. I get that you still have questions about lewd content, and we may disagree on some aspects about what is considered lewd. However, wouldn't it be great if this were the biggest problem we have with the content deciders on social media platforms? People already take issue with what is considered R, PG, TV-MA, etc... But it's not as political as what we see today.
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SPC Kevin Ford
Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin - One thing to consider is many of these are international platforms, so what is considered lewd in the US may not be considered lewd in other areas. So it may be a little less obvious than at first glance.
But my point is more where does one draw the line once things start getting censored? So the boobies example, many people consider that to be political here in the US and many other countries it is just fine to show them. What is and is not lewd is intrinsically a political question. There is no natural law being violated or anything else. Just what some segments of our society have agreed on is what lewd content is good and what is bad.
But my point is more where does one draw the line once things start getting censored? So the boobies example, many people consider that to be political here in the US and many other countries it is just fine to show them. What is and is not lewd is intrinsically a political question. There is no natural law being violated or anything else. Just what some segments of our society have agreed on is what lewd content is good and what is bad.
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