How Do You Think About Social Media Companies?

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Social media companies exercise far more discretion and control over content than does a horizon or at ant a. And, you know, it's also the case that if they were not to moderate at all, thetheat the platforms would be cesspools. I think other forms of regulation dictating how content is moderated would really get government into a realm of policing of speech which weve always been hesitant to do. Ent first amendment forecloses.

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Shermer and Nossel discuss: private vs. government restrictions on speech; hate speech, libel, slander, compelled speech; incitement to violence and insurrection; cancel culture; social media censorship; the euphemism treadmill, and more…