Supreme Court to hear social media case

A lot of what is being called “conservative speech” is blatant disinformation. So now the courts are going to say a platform can’t filter out blatant disinformation? A company platform wants to have a quality product for their customers, however they define it. The alternative is the government saying that the Q’s and Dugger dads of the world can post anything they want as much as they want.

 

Don’t disagree with most of you post but my question why you limit it to “conservative speech”??? Is it your position that there is no “disinformation” in the form of liberal and progressive speech??

Or, are limits to be applied in an Orwellian fashion to just “conservative speech”?

 

Yep, if the whole covid misinformation debacle didn't wake you up...

 

Good points. I would go even further to suggest that it’s irrelevant if the information that is being censored or promoted is “disinformation”. Private parties should be able to push whatever information they like without some agency fact checking them. In addition, we don’t even have to limit this discussion to disinformation, as it could equally apply to perspectives. What if Disney makes 5 movies in a row supporting oppressed racial minorities? Could that be viewed as liberal speech that requires Disney to counterbalance it by making 5 movies supporting the majority group?

It seems to me to obviously be a Pandora’s box that we should not be opening.

 

If I may try to defend @l_boy’s and my one-sidedness in language here, I think we are just trying to address the current legal battles, where it is conservatives trying to take on the platforms. There is of course liberal disinformation, which any platform should also be free to censor at its pleasure.

 

absolutely. Private platforms should be able to filter liberal speech too. Let the market sort it out.

I’m not sure where the line is here? Should people be able to post porn? Hate speech? Threats? Pedophelia? Who determines what can or can’t be posted? Clearly conservatives don’t think private corporations should. Do they want to government to do it or do they think anything goes?

 

Same with the the covidiots who were pro lockdowns, school closures and maskers. Weird you didn't bring that up...

 

And businesses alike should be able to censor at their pleasure, right?

 

Yes.