They can think for themselves, you just don't understand their thoughts & perspective through your bias/bubble.
Censoring is wrong, period. Win your arguments on merit, not by silencing the other side.
In the wild world of unmoderated social media, "merit" at scale reduces to "the most salacious information that feeds what the audience wants to believe, regardless of whether it is grounded in evidence". It's just a propaganda rally, ultimately underpinnned by the old ominous maxim "might is right", with the target being a group who is not present in the conversation.
People don't have as innate a desire for intellectual rigor in deconstructing untruths as you or I would like. Even you and I don't always have that rigor, even though we probably both strive for it. If anything, many people want to be lied to if the lie dovetails with their feelings and agendas. Is it wrong to want to be lied to? I don't know - it's hard to judge another person's deep desires.
It's a real problem from the perspective of the social fabric and the shared narratives that hold it together, although the alternative - the government regulating non-violent speech - is arguably even more worrisome.
This is an elitist point of view, and I don't think you are as good at deconstructing untruths as you'd like to believe.
> If anything, many people want to be lied to if the lie dovetails with their feelings and agendas.
> I don't know - it's hard to judge another person's deep desires.
So you think you can mindread people and you know what "many people" want?
You just admitted it's hard to judge another persons desires.
This all misses the main point. This mob agenda targets Republicans and hoists Democrats and their tech CEO/shareholder puppets to the position of Ministry of Truth.
It's incredibly obvious that the other platforms fell into line and Facebook is receiving the mob's attention until they submit as well. This isn't about the wellbeing of people or you knowing best, it's about power-grabbing, corruption, and censorship.
I'm glad Zuck is taking this stance and I'm glad he has a majority.
You seem to have ignored the sentence I wrote immediately following that:
"Even you and I don't always have that rigor, even though we probably both strive for it."
I count myself as "people" here.
> So you think you can mindread people and you know what "many people" want? > You just admitted it's hard to judge another persons desires.
No, but I know that targeting peoples basest desires and resentments is a very effective propaganda technique. You don't need a PhD in history to concluded that.
It's certainly not so bad that we need to censor politicians because SO MANY people can't think for themselves.
We had 8 years of Obama, I didn't hear anything about anyone needing censoring, only when we have a Republican in office do we need to think about censoring...
When they start censoring the Democrats constant lies then I'll believe you want a legitimate debate. Don't worry the Dems will provide you with their very own fact checker!
I wouldn't assume, especially when it's assuming about 327 million people's ideology and thought process.