If the opposing narritive is propaganda or hatred, who’s doing the mental gymnastics here?
Facebook would look quite interesting if they uniformly censored all governments, activist groups, companies, religious organizations, the media, and individuals attempting to influence an audience and further an agenda.
The only place on the internet that I know has a policy like that is Wikipedia itself, and far from everyone agree that they are effective in enforcing that policy.
But if it has not been increasingly subjective, but harder to detect, then what you are implying, if I do not distord your point of view, is that it is okay to be stricter in policing to catch stop these sophisticated bigots.
But, doesn't being more strict mean that you'll also have more false negatives, that is people that always had "heretic" talk from the point of view of general society, without necessarily being a bigot, but are now being identified as such because the criteria are paint with a broader brush?
And then, wouldn't you agree that this is a restriction of free speech, that people on the other side are arguing to be unacceptable?
Yes, although of course that depends on your definition of "policing" and by whom (state vs private) Are we still talking about Facebook?
> But, doesn't being more strict mean that you'll also have more false negatives
Yes (in either case above). What you're asking about is the margins, and of course we need oversight to prevent abuse both in the private and public sector.
> And then, wouldn't you agree that this is a restriction of free speech, that people on the other side are arguing to be unacceptable?
Again, not sure if we're still talking FB.
I'm going to bow out now, thank you for the debate.
It's ironic, because mass censorship proponents claim censoring hate prevents violence, when perhaps it actually makes it worse in the long run.
"Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."
-MLK
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