Social Media Censorship

You're looking at it wrong.This is free expression, they are providing a platform as free as you going in the street and expressing yourself.If the government wants to censor this type of expression, it must pass laws, and it must dictates what you can say or can't say. With such a move, social medias would become forbidden, or inefficient (as every post would need to be approved before being released).If this is the world you want to live in, it's fine, but you need to u

Google, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram, Twitter are all private entities. Let's say they don't like the Democratic party. They can single handedly cause a media block out and be able to unfairly influence the elections, view of the world etc. You won't be able to find a single search result or a speech or tweet.In this context we can't afford to treat these companies as private entities. They should not be able to block/ban whoever they want just because they feel threa

This is a private company. As a company they also have freedom of speech. Government should not interfere. They should be free to curate their own platform. You can create your own facebook... -HN after Trump was banned, or after NoNewNormal was banned by redditIt is amazing how fast the narrative changes, based on how people agree or disagree with the censored group in question. Do people notice they are behaving this way?

It is not my responsibility to define whether it is a "platform" or a "publisher" as a user. I feel it is behaving more as a publisher than as a platform. I have explained in detail my reasoning (if you wish to learn more about my stand on this): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23716300I have no issues with any social media groups taking action on posts that are ex

If privacy is a concern, facebook or twitter or instagram should have be banned long long long time ago, why ChatGPT? What if a government ban everything but only those which agree with their voice, as in China?

i think they likely are referring to the 2019-2020 trend of government leaning on social media companies to block/suppress certain content. not saying that is worse than what is happening now, but it definitely happened and i remember not being able to send links to news articles deemed politically problematic or “likely Russian disinformation”e: cmon, downvoted just for providing the example all of these replies are asking for - really?

> If they can do this to a sitting President of the US, they can do it to every single one of us.I've seen this exact statement on various other platforms from conservative commentators. And it's basically horseshit. Now you're concerned? Seriously? Google accounts have been locked out with no recourse for years, apple bans apps left and right and facebook 'moderates' posts based on some interesting thresholds.I find it disingenuous to suddenly care about this w

Multiple heads of states across the world are sharing the same message, see for example Germany and France :https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/merkel-se...> Rights like the freedom of speech “can be interfered with, but by law and within the framework defined by the legisl

Not too long ago there was an article on CNN about regulating the social media platforms. Author said: "It doesn't really matter whether these platforms are biased towards liberals or conservatives, the real question is why have we given them this power in the first place."That was well said. Too bad after Biden's victory, CNN or no one on the democratic side cared about this anymore. Some surely do, but at least it's not being discussed anymore as much as before.L

Yes! It is happening everywhere. Any right or right of centric publication, channel, individual is ripe for targeting in the current social media landscape. There is literally zero protection or recourse. It is their platforms and they can do whatever they please. In essence, these social media companies wield influence greater than many Governments in the World. This sort of unchecked power is scary to say the least!