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This is real bad. Also... social platforms did some of this to themselves. They never had to abdicate editorial responsibility, they weren't forced to pretend they were perfect neutral entities. They could have talked about themselves differently. politico.com/story/2019/08/07/white-house-tech-censorship-1639051Permalink On twitter.com
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It is a super fascinating thought experiment to imagine what would have happened to the world if when Gizmodo did that first article about Facebook being anti-conservative the Facebook PR flack would have just said "yeah, this is our site and this is our position. byyyyyye"On twitter.com
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Instead, the big platforms have consistently tied themselves in ever more complex knots in which they consistently lose every PR battle. They could have just... I dunno... taken a stance and been done with it.Permalink On twitter.com
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I mean... they never would have, because that would chance that they might make Less Money. But aren't they ending up making Less Money in the long term because of the increasingly high profile disaster of their footprint in the public square?Permalink On twitter.com
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But jeez... could you imagine what a weird world it would be if YouTube was like "yes, we're biased against liars, climate change denials, and hate and we will moderate along that bias as we will"?Permalink On twitter.com
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But yeah, this is def a bad idea to try and hack together some sort of federal controls around. Don't do that.Permalink On twitter.com
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Seriously. justinhendrix/1159890002437971969?s=19Permalink On twitter.com
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