Posted on May 20, 2022
After Buffalo Massacre, Calls Grow for Gov’t to Regulate Social Media Hate
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Calls are growing for heavier restrictions on social media platforms after a white supremacist live-streamed his shooting spree in Buffalo, New York, on Saturday, resulting in 10 deaths and three wounded. While the video was removed from Twitch within minutes, platforms such as Twitter and Facebook allowed it to circulate for days and gain over a million views. The 18-year-old shooter was radicalized through online forums such as 4chan, according to a racist screed he authored. “What we are dealing with is the backend business models that are creating a structure where certain things are being able to be profited from, certain things travel differently, and hate-filled content has more of a space to be engaged with,” says Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change. Color of Change has called for social media platforms to institute changes to their terms of service and urged Twitch to conduct a racial equity audit.
After Buffalo Massacre, Calls Grow for Gov’t to Regulate Social Media Hate
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Regulate social media? Is that not what Biden tried and then shut down?
I agree something needs to be done but I am not sure just what. Who would make the decisions necessary to regulate the media? What would be the results of such regulating? Where would the line be drawn?
Technology has far exceeded our laws and social conduct. Even here on RP we see comments made that would never be done face to face.
Interesting topic.
I agree something needs to be done but I am not sure just what. Who would make the decisions necessary to regulate the media? What would be the results of such regulating? Where would the line be drawn?
Technology has far exceeded our laws and social conduct. Even here on RP we see comments made that would never be done face to face.
Interesting topic.
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Let them rant, BUT, follow up on them. It doesn't do anything to stop the violence...this way we know who they are. NY has a "red flag" law and law enforcement failed to enforce it as they often do...
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Government CANNOT regulate social media hate - that is in direct conflict with the 1st amendment. The supreme court has already ruled that hate speech is protected speech. Freedoms are not freedoms if you deny it to anyone, regardless of what they say, or who listens to it. Hateful rhetoric MUST be engaged with, argued against, and debated in an open forum and exchange. Shutting them down, silencing, de-platforming, and cancelling them makes them martyrs. What people are silenced today, can, and will, be turned against YOU tomm0rrow.
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