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To: DiogenesLamp
How are their businesses getting destroyed from simply being required to serve everyone equally?

As I've often said, the inability to moderate what happens on their platforms would destroy the user experience and drive away advertisers.

Imagine if they couldn't control spam, trolls, competitors who were only interested in disruption and who knows what else.

You're demanding an environment with no standards other than what the law prohibits.

Imagine every Twitter thread filled with keto diet pitches. Or pictures of aborted fetuses inserted into every Facebook conversation.

How long before the users and then the advertisers flee?

It sounds good to say no censorship but people who say that haven't thought it through in the context of social media.

If history is a guide you'll come up with some undefinable, arbitrary standard that at the end of the day will have to be mediated by a government commissar, but that's just special pleading.

245 posted on 05/27/2020 7:33:15 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: semimojo

Best argument for your position you have ever articulated. I’ll have to consider it further before responding.


247 posted on 05/27/2020 7:37:16 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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