> Like I always say with content moderation, every social media site owner who is “pro free speech” meets their line eventually.
For 4chan, it was anime child porn. For Facebook and YouTube, it was white nationalist terror. For Elon, it was people making fun of him.
That's fanciful, but I disagree, Chris Poole was getting old and didn't want to be stuck in a career as an admin running a scary hellsite with no path to profitability as it was time consuming so he sold it for profit, did a quick spit-shine of his reputation with a media tour, spun it all as some big free speech experiment and landed a job at google.
If he really had a problem with depictions of minors in hentai he would have done something about it a long time ago.
What a terrible take. How do you equate sharing child porn with speech though? That’s literally complicity in illegal activity. Speech would be more like discussing the merits of such a law and what not.
> For Facebook and YouTube, it was white nationalist terror
Or you know, colluding with the government to censor facts they don’t like.
> Speech would be more like discussing the merits of such a law and what not.
what a ridiculously narrow view of what constitutes speech! is this message, which isn't discussing the merits of any law, not speech? speech is all encompassing, not just the limited topics you personally approve of.
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