[skh]

You think child porn is pretty much the only thing that is illegal to video? I think you should do further research on this issue. There’s a lot more than just child porn that is illegal to video.

All societies have regulated speech. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t believe this should be so. A desire to censor some things should not be spoken of as a desire to censor everything. Such hyperbole undermines your position.

With Facebook and Google speech is easier to disseminate. It’s also way easier to target said speech. No one can be vigilant at all times in terms of checking sources and accuracy of what we see/read/watch. People are easily duped. People are easily led to believe things that are obviously false. The anti-vax movement is an example of this.

We have entered an information age unlike any other in the past. This ability to sway, target, and reach so many at scale for so little cost has implications that may cause society to re-examine the nature of free speech. If Facebook let’s the floodgates open as you say then this re-examination will come much sooner and likely be the result of outrage and thus end up hurting Facebook in the long run. Facebook would like to prevent this from happening. Hence they take steps toward mitigating the public perception of Facebook enabling bad actors.

[ancorevard]

"All societies have regulated speech."

Unfortunately, yes in various ways. But the devil is in the details. Who decides what specific ideas should be outlawed?

[untog]

> Who decides what specific ideas should be outlawed?

The politicians who write laws. Lawmakers decide what should be outlawed.

I'm not sure why people paint this process as complicated. We live in a society, that society decides what is acceptable and what is not. You are welcome to disagree with the conclusion, but it's not some shrouded mystery how we make the choices we do.

[ancorevard]

"I'm not sure why people paint this process as complicated."

Reading between your lines here it seems like you have never tried to define what is allowed behavior and what is not and more importantly, tried to applied that to specific issues.

It's easy to all agree that pornography, hate speech etc. is bad. But what is pornography, and what is hate speech? Where do you draw the line...

[anigbrowl]

On the other hand, the political process is unwieldy and unresponsive in this age of instant communication, which is why it's not working that great lately.

[skh]

Well, society decides. Sometimes societies have a framework for deciding the grey area between individual rights and the right of society to regulate (in the form of government). That’s what political and legal battles are all about. There is nothing unfortunate about this though. What is good at an individual level may not be good at a societal level.