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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Hopefully social media platforms start taking social responsibility seriously and suspend all people making threats and calls to violence. But if this is applied selectively and along culture wars lines, it will give credence to the claims of conservatives that the media and tech are conspiring against half of America. Which will only add fuel to the fires of division and hate.
Whenever you cheer on an institution's power to suppress your enemies, stop and consider if those powers could be used against you. I don't have any difficulty imagining a timeline where Silicon Valley giants suppress speech by a future Bernie Sanders. Will we still be applauding the freedom of private companies to police their platforms as they see fit then?
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All the more reason for people to reject social media platforms. I deleted Twitter a couple months ago and I honest to god have not missed it one bit. It’s the worst. Facebook? Useless. I don’t even have or ever have had Instagram.
All this stuff is just crap.