We have never kept up with technology, and of course, left it up to the free market to handle threatening speech. Face Book, when it started, had very strict rules and did enforce them. Twitter less so but eventually got shamed into it.
Then came the onslaught of Russian trolls who were to numerous to hit and it became like whack-a-mole. As long as they paid for ads Facebook would let them spew.
I guarantee you that if that exact same hate speech & radicalization was coming from an Osama Bin Laden type person, the CIA or FBI would be doing something about it. But because it’s a US citizen trying to destroy the country; well that’s A okay. 🤬
GamerGate should have been a huge wake up call to how social media could be weaponized. It was the dress rehearsal for 2016.
I can't believe we have no laws to deplatform these people. Or arrest for hate speech.
We have never kept up with technology, and of course, left it up to the free market to handle threatening speech. Face Book, when it started, had very strict rules and did enforce them. Twitter less so but eventually got shamed into it.
Then came the onslaught of Russian trolls who were to numerous to hit and it became like whack-a-mole. As long as they paid for ads Facebook would let them spew.
I guarantee you that if that exact same hate speech & radicalization was coming from an Osama Bin Laden type person, the CIA or FBI would be doing something about it. But because it’s a US citizen trying to destroy the country; well that’s A okay. 🤬