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- Fax_Benson2
All elected politicians should have their accounts frozen for the duration of their time in office. He's probably the worst offender but the problem goes way beyond Trump. We were fucked as soon as politics moved onto Twitter and political journalism followed. Remove all of the politicians. Platforms could genuinely claim to be impartial and be absolved of the responsibility of having to police them.
- there should also be some recognition of the fact that users supply all of the monetised content for free and should be paid somehow, maybe as a taxFax_Benson
- fyi Facebook gets $2 value from each user nowgrafician
- < see, if we do regulation this way everything will be fine.sted
- grafician0
It's like this because nobody bothered to write a "manual for the Internet" and everybody is doing whatever they like/want rn - users and companies alike
WWW means more Wild Wild West than Web
but overall social media is a looking glass for society more or less, so when we achieve online nirvana, will practically transform our offline society too; rn we're in the "reverse zone" as in anonymous people are worse online than offline - I mean even QBN is a good slice of that (just like now with Trump, QBN tolerated many years the likes of bobo and others like that); so when we learn to behave online, we'll be good offline too.
solutions: more education ofc and even re-education for some
- re-education as in "look, this is how this actually works and this is how you use it"grafician
- i also think education has to play partrenderedred
- we have racists offline to begin with for examplerenderedred
- GuyFawkes12
Censorship "works for us" when its Trump.
But censoring Bernie 4 years ago is also what gave us Trump.- I dunno how true this really is. Yes some working class people voted for Trump but the only income group he won was $100k+yuekit
- Trump was only censored for his lies and danger. Bernie was just ignored.monospaced
- lol okGuyFawkes
- Trump wasn’t censored either.monospaced
- So banning trump isnt censoring him. Ok dude.GuyFawkes
- Read your last 2 comments back and ask yourself if anyone should take your words seriously.GuyFawkes
- Thats the problem with know it allsGuyFawkes
- If you look at who Trump supporters are they are mostly extremely partisan conservatives. People who read Breitbart and stuff like that.yuekit
- The crossover with Bernie supporters was never that significant. You weren’t going to appease the Trump people by giving them universal healthcare, in factyuekit
- most of them would be out of the streets protesting this as a communist takeover. Which is not to say the needs of the working class in the USA haven’t beenyuekit
- neglected by the ruling class, just that you can’t draw such a clear line between these things.yuekit
- Kicking him off social media is not censorship.monospaced
- sted0
just love qbn and think about this every time you want to rage against the moderator or demand banning somebody, now i want you to think again on a global scale. right after that think about how this can be signed into a law (we are still thinking on the global scale), and how that law can be executed on an infrastructure what was built to support human expression in addition to a lot of other things.
- renderedred1
one of my thoughts goes in the direction of social in social media. there are severe problems in our society that just get immensely amplified my the medium.
- NBQ003
This guy is getting a bit annoying and smart-assy lately but there’s a bit of truth in it.
- He’s kind of a teumptard.monospaced
- yeah this guy's annoying.
free speech is: our government sucks
not: let's say all kinds of bullshit to inspire violence and put people in danger_niko - also, you making money on youtube shouldn't be equated to free speech ie I can say whatever ludicrous thing i can think of as long as people watch my shit_niko
- ...especially when what you say puts people's health or lives in danger._niko
- nothing said directly puts health and lives in danger. everyone is responsible for their own actions.cannonball1978
- also no free speech is govt stuff plus everything elsecannonball1978
- omg. what happened to aphex twin?sandpipe
- "You still think?"Chimp
- i_monk-8
Letting just any idiot have an equal platform is obviously a mistake.
- I disagree. I think it’s the beauty of the whole thing. No, it’s the entire point of it. Sorry man.monospaced
- The beauty of disinfo, mass manipulation, cancel culture, conspiracy theories, and fomenting anti-democratic coups. "Sorry man." Lol.i_monk
- More and more I find myself agreeing with mono, respect.IRNlun6
- Social media is a tool mono, careful not to conflate it with free speech. Just because you CAN say anything doesn't mean you're owed a microphone.ben_
- One mans idiot is another mans philosopher.Chimp
- renderedred
I think it is very clear to everybody where we are now.
But, what can be done, where and what are the mistakes?
What's the future with the experiences we all have?
Maybe new ideas and solutions?Discuss.