Popular vote would be a big step.
Getting rid of gerrymandering as well. And the law that makes it legal for companies to bribe politicians.
ConservagameR said:
Why did Elon and Kanye not care at all about control over social media, only being able to use it themselves, until somewhat recently? Why did they then both go out of their way to spend ridiculous amounts of money to have full control over these so called free speech platforms? To fix them because so many people are being wrongly silenced, and to own the platforms themselves to make sure they won't ever be silenced. Want to make sure that you or others can speak freely? Don't rely on democratic rights or morals, instead rely on the free market and capitalism to make yourself (tens of) billions of dollars, otherwise you very well may be kept quiet. |
Define wrongly silenced?
Because Twitter decides who and what they want to give their microphone to. What is right or wrong on their platform has to adhere to their community guidfelines and terms of service.
Should anyone be able to say anything they like, including death threats and harassment?
Do you think every person we've ever moderated on this forum was wrongly silenced as well?
Because if your answer is no, then understand that this isn't an issue of a universal right or wrong, but that different people will draw the lines differently.
And to answer your rhetorical question, Musk and Kanye are interested in erasing that line for things like hate speech and baseless/harmful missinformation.
And I don't think that's admirable.
