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by hairofadog 1981 days ago
Sincere question: Do you have any ideas regarding how to mitigate the use of these platforms to disseminate disinformation and to incite and organize violence? Or do you not see it as a problem? Or do you agree it’s a problem, but one that we have to live with as part of the price of free speech?
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Free speech itself is the problem. If it's free, then as Forrest Gump says' "You never know what you're gonna get."

If some manager, somewhere, or even 'some random worker' can decide what you're going to get, then it ain't free speech. End of story.

"one that we have to live with as part of the price of free speech?" Yes.

In the words usually attributed to Voltaire: “I wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it.”

[...] in the words of the Supreme Court - where there is time for better counsels to prevail, the remedy for speech is more speech. [...]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55640437

This is the American way. Europeans have a different approach to it and they do ban certain speech outright.