| > "Tech companies" is just way too broad a designation to use here. No one is seriously asking Apple to police hate speech in iMessage or Facetime, for instance, or Verizon to police hate speech in SMS. Sure they are. Microsoft is even monitoring their service for "bad words". https://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/03/27/microsoft-ban-offensi... > What people are concerned about are the newsfeeds and timelines, specifically. No. That's a small part of what primarily the left want to censor. > It's silly to worry about giving these products "the power to determine what people can—and can’t—say online." They've already seized it for themselves--by deciding for me which content will show up in my newsfeed/timeline/suggested list. They decide which content gets promoted to me. Which you can choose to ignore or bypass. > So if you build a publishing system designed solely to maximize engagement, it's going to become a system that preferentially serves content that feeds negative emotions. Then why aren't you demanding CNN or the NYTimes be censored? > The companies doing this need to accept their responsibility for what they decide to serve and promote. They are. They are serving what their customers want. The only people who are complaining about it are authoritarian and selfish individuals who want to control what people see and say. It's no different than a prude whining about the porn people watch. |