Often, they collect personal details and have no healthy serious competition : Twitter, Facebook, Google, Nextdoor. Linkedin has surprisingly been a conflict free zone. It’s mob rule everywhere else.
Will this lead to a homogeneous society? Is it time to quit the righteous social media?
The world is now divided into right vs righteous. I can’t stand it anymore. I am tired of hearing just one narrative.
I guess my question is...where are we going? Adults in public spaces are acting like kindergarten kids telling on neighbors, co-workers, bosses and anyone they perceive as ‘the other’.
For now, the liberal/progressive side is the rule maker. It won’t take long to flip to the other side. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. So this is a dangerous trend.
Maybe the real problem isn't censorship but infiltration of politics into a social network simmilar to everyones drunk uncle at thanksgiving.
Maybe the political news media has corrupted social media to create an echo chamber to reinforce the outrage they push on their network tv.
Maybe Grandma just wants to see the new pictures of the baby but is forced to consume ultra partisan propaganda in order to do so.
Maybe the social media companies make too much money off politics to do the right thing and cancel it like racisism or pornography.
The First Amendment does not and never did apply to corporations; it is a subset of free speech that specifically only binds what the government may do.
Every platform needs rules, as there are always abusers. 4chan had an issue With cp. Facebook censors delete cp, suicide videos, torture etc. You can’t have a “censorship free” platform. There must be rules, but should those rules be decided by tech guys or politicians?
I suggest quitting social media. Because truth is buried in a sea of lies.
Social media promotes what is popular (shocking) not what is truth.
Millions of bots spread shocking fake news like Qanon, covid conspiracies.
This is damaging your country. Several terrorist attacks happened in your country, inspired by propaganda on social media.
The amendment was written for humans. Sure free speech, but should free speech apply to millions of robots spreading fake news?
It’s not like tech companies don’t know bots are spreading propaganda, they just ignore it because it’s “not a priority”.
While platform rapidly censor nudity, they seem to ignore anti American botnet propaganda. Stories like “covid created by NATO”, “bill gates made nano bots vaccine” etc.
Should social media be a platform for hatred? Lies? Terrorists?
Today it is.
The AI terrorism of social media will only get worse. And your tech companies seem to ignore it.