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Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by EGreg on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:37AM (#25671471)
Your analogy is strange because our society has opted to punish parents for letting kids play outside unsupervised the way they themselves did, while in the case of social platforms, it has opted for individual responsibility and no sanctions. Unless you’re saying we went wrong with the kids and now we should not do the same for adults. In which case I would say that letting kids play unsupervised is an individual risk but speech and organizations have large and exponentially spreading emergent effects, so if you have the profit motive you’re going to end up with certain, shall we say, exacerbated divisions in this country.
Re:The account of realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours by lhorie on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:49AM (#25671642)
> you’re saying we went wrong with the kids and now we should not do the same for adults

Well, I'm not defending that position so much as I am parroting that crowd's idea that unsupervised childhoods were better.

I think in both cases there's an element of prescribing the loss of options in favor of some notion of greater good. Whether it is a warranted trade-off or not, I don't know, but the Benjamin Franklin quote comes to mind: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"