Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by randomsearch on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:44AM
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> I’m not sure why Jack Dorsey should get to decide what’s true just because he invented a social media platform
A social media platform is a publisher, if it encourages news to be disseminated through its networks then it should be held to the same scrutiny.
Some might cry - well this is impossible! I can tweet anything and a stranger can share it, how can I cope with that volume etc... well, then you have to choose:
if you want to be a broadcaster, then you must obey the law and not broadcast propaganda or blatant falsehoods.
If you do not want to censor or edit, then you must stop being a broadcaster, that is you must limit the reach of that material, so that a person may only communicate it to their friend and not further in the same way as an ordinary conversation in person, by telephone, or text message would work.
A social media platform is a publisher, if it encourages news to be disseminated through its networks then it should be held to the same scrutiny.
Some might cry - well this is impossible! I can tweet anything and a stranger can share it, how can I cope with that volume etc... well, then you have to choose:
if you want to be a broadcaster, then you must obey the law and not broadcast propaganda or blatant falsehoods.
If you do not want to censor or edit, then you must stop being a broadcaster, that is you must limit the reach of that material, so that a person may only communicate it to their friend and not further in the same way as an ordinary conversation in person, by telephone, or text message would work.