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I really don't think Facebook should be in charge of making speech moderation at this level of specificity. Social media platforms have become the public squar
by HumanReadable 5y ago
I really don't think Facebook should be in charge of making speech moderation at this level of specificity.
Social media platforms have become the public squares of the 21st century, and as such we need to treat the right for free speech on those platforms as important.
That doesn't mean we can't change these platforms to favour desirable engagement. If our physical public square were very small, everyone might be reduced to yelling to hear each other. So we make our physical public squares large and open! Maybe if we put a tree in the middle, it will calm us down and help us engage with each other.
But we will never appoint a public square moderator who arbitrarily decides what can and cannot be said. Neither should Facebook.