Not what I claimed, I'm not saying I have a solution here, or that anyone should be empowered to arbitrate. Merely that the idealist position is also pretty wrongheaded.
> I'm not saying [...] that anyone should be empowered to arbitrate.
> I think those providing speech platforms [...] should probably take more responsibility for what they propagate.
Hmm... It seems like that's exactly what you said earlier. Walking it back now?
> Hmm... It seems like that's exactly what you said earlier. Walking it back now?
Nope.
First one is in reference to government, I'm not suggesting that the government should have the power to shut people down, as I've said in multiple places, I'm not sure what a good solution looks like.
The second one is about platform owners, who are not governments, but should take some more responsibility for spreading (for instance) hate by providing their platform to people.
Oh ok, so when you say "anyone" you mean only the government. That makes a lot of sense.
When I say I'm not sure anyone should be empowered to arbitrate, I mean that yes, and that's a very different thing to people having control over what they broadcast on their own platforms.
Not sure what your problem is here TBH.
But thank god you and I are smart - really, really smart. So smart, in fact, that we should take it upon ourselves to police the thoughts and words of the 'lessers'.