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The Free Speech Concerns Fall to the Platforms
I think that the free speech concerns fall to the platforms themselves. I'm not saying Jones needs to be jailed for his irrational beliefs. But if you owned a platform, and you didn't want to be associated with this kind of needless human misery and irrationality, why should anyone force you to stay married to Alex Jones? He's been given tools that never existed before. It's not like maybe he would have been a pamphleteer a hundred years ago. Now we've given him these algorithmic tools that preferentially boost insanity because we have this awful business model that just feeds on, on attention. And yet it's all this insane fiction, right? That they faked their children