The ban follows a long-running battle between Brazil’s supreme court and Elon Musk. It shows the country will no longer tolerate tech giants ignoring the rule of law.
First of all, if you want to have a genuine argument, don’t go out and throw sarcastic nonsense right out of the bat. You’d be pretty pissed if I said that you don’t care about freedom of speech and that you suggest a total authoritarian society. I know that that’s not the case and so should you.
And second, who decides what’s harmful enough to ban? Should we ban anything that is harmful? Or should we only ban things the government deems harmful? Pretty sure many countries still consider LGBTQ communities harmful so if that’s the case, they should be banned.
You don’t get to decide who’s being harmful and who’s not (Should I also make clear that I’m not advocating pedos sharing CSAM or such criminals?). If you are the admin and you want your community to be certain way, please, by all means. Governmental ban? Hard no.
Also, if you ban them, they don’t disappear just like that. If anything, the worst of them migrate and find somewhere else and make it even worse than it was. It’s about addressing the root causes. Educate people, don’t just push the problem out of sight. That’s where we’re failing. Let people realize that racists and nazis are below 60 IQ bigots and let people make fun of them. That’s how freedom of speech should work.
So by virtue of social media existing, it can’t be flawed? It can’t be broken? It can’t be harmful? It can’t be pushing racist and fascist ideology?
There’s a mountain of evidence showing the harms social media does, and you’re just acting like all that research doesn’t exist.
First of all, if you want to have a genuine argument, don’t go out and throw sarcastic nonsense right out of the bat. You’d be pretty pissed if I said that you don’t care about freedom of speech and that you suggest a total authoritarian society. I know that that’s not the case and so should you.
And second, who decides what’s harmful enough to ban? Should we ban anything that is harmful? Or should we only ban things the government deems harmful? Pretty sure many countries still consider LGBTQ communities harmful so if that’s the case, they should be banned.
You don’t get to decide who’s being harmful and who’s not (Should I also make clear that I’m not advocating pedos sharing CSAM or such criminals?). If you are the admin and you want your community to be certain way, please, by all means. Governmental ban? Hard no.
Also, if you ban them, they don’t disappear just like that. If anything, the worst of them migrate and find somewhere else and make it even worse than it was. It’s about addressing the root causes. Educate people, don’t just push the problem out of sight. That’s where we’re failing. Let people realize that racists and nazis are below 60 IQ bigots and let people make fun of them. That’s how freedom of speech should work.