It's correct to be thinking about this, notwithstanding the fact that I place little faith in the federal government to produce the correct outcome.
Everything is both!
Of course you'll have more and more proprietary-algos / blackbox-ML/AI-systems filtering content. And of course the content can't be manually reviewed (because SIZE) and you can't have the platform be responsible for it (what does it even mean to "be responsible for content"?!).
It's sad there's not much we can do to regulate away some of the toxic infos (like the "platform vs publisher" meme currently floating around...), but here it's actually a case where doing nothing and stomacking some of the bad consequences is 1000% better that doing something! Because that "something" whatever it may be will limit fundamental freedoms simply by having something exists in this space!
It's a red herring.
Unless they're equally blasé about "women are trash" posters, seems their enforcement against sexism is only one sided?
Note it’s not like there are humans evaluating each and every tweet so it’s going to be inconsistency applied.
I also find it interesting that since posting on HN someone is trying to reset my Facebook account. Talk about censorship...
Reddit has been censoring their less mainstream-friendly BDSM porn subreddits. To appear on most of the site your subreddit has to be whitelisted, now.
It’s not just politics. They are defining broad guidelines of what categories of (legal) things you are allowed to publish or not.