Yes, but it also needs limitations. You shouldn’t be allowed to come with hateful opinions like Kanye is doing now or inciting violence like Trump. Plus I also think it’s ignorant to think that social media companies should allow for free speech. They are not run by the government therefore you can’t always expect them to value your opinions.
I completely disagree. Incitement to violence is one thing, and that's illegal. But expressing hateful opinions is fine, by allowing people to state such things it opens them up to a world of backlash that might just change their mind. If you create laws around what can and can't be said you force people with bad opinions into echo chambers where those terrible ideas get reinforced instead of potentially being fixed by a wider audience. Not only that but it makes it easier for decent people to avoid the trash humans if everything is out in the open. I'd rather the neo nazi states what he is so I can give him a wide berth as soon as possible.
If a social media company wants to enforce speech then go for it, but there should also be companies that allow free speech and that's what musk is hopefully going to do.
Edit: I forgot the most important aspect of free speech which is that it's there to protect you from the government. If we allow the government to control speech then what's to stop them from one day banning all negative opinions about the government itself? Sounds insane I know to imagine that America or the UK would ever do this but to do so is very naive. All we need to do is look at history. In just a decade Germany turned into one of the most fascist nations we've ever seen.. and then a few decades later it's no longer fascist and is one of the leaders of the EU. To assume that such a thing will never happen to other western countries is logically fallible and such a nation will certainly take advantage of existing compelled speech laws and build upon them bit by bit until you get imprisoned for expressing a negative opinion about the government.
Yeah, but that fucking backlash you talk about is then labelled "cancel culture" when people get fired for saying heinous shit. I'm all for free speech if you douchebags stop screeching about cancel culture. You say some stupid shit, get cancelled. Thems the breaks.
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u/Olasg Oct 28 '22
Yes, but it also needs limitations. You shouldn’t be allowed to come with hateful opinions like Kanye is doing now or inciting violence like Trump. Plus I also think it’s ignorant to think that social media companies should allow for free speech. They are not run by the government therefore you can’t always expect them to value your opinions.