The Free Speech thread

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method114 said:

Jumpin said:

I’m not seeing anything in your source saying some guy in a White House back room was calling up Twitter to ban this reporter. The article says the Biden administration put pressure on Twitter to stop COVID misinformation.

It sounds like the White House and Twitter were doing their jobs.

The white house is specifically asking why certain people aren't banned yet. Naming this reporter specifically.  If this isn't the white house putting pressure on you I don't know what is. You think it's the Governments job to silence people they believe are spreading disinformation? You do realize the Government is one of the top entities when it comes to spreading disinformation throughout history correct? These are the last people you want in charge of deciding what is or isn't disinformation. I wont even get into all the things they claimed were true only to be proven false later on. 

It's scary to me that people think the Government should be involved in deciding what people can discuss online.

Well, at least in democracy it's the people's will. I think much bigger problem is, that the speech is governed by people with financial intrests. You can't trust governments you elected yourself, but a shady billionaire is somehow trustworthy. 

Anyway, biggest problem is, that US-based social media companies with US government influence get to govern speech elsewhere in the world. I'm surprised there aren't many laws that govern social media around the world, as you'd expect people and politicians wanting to express themselves in important matters without it being "hate speech" or "against platform policy".