President Emmanuel Macron's government faced a backlash Wednesday after the centrist leader called for powers to "cut off" social media in case of widespread violence like riots over the past week.
The problem comes when you let the government decide what is “hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism”.
It gives government too much power to control the opposition by censorship.
What exactly do you propose to do about hate speech, racism, bigotry and fascism being spread on social media as propaganda, ignore it and hope no one sees it and gets radicalized? We’re already seeing people become terrorists after being radicalized by Internet media. and you would have us just hope we’re not in the line of fire when it happens again, I guess?
I literally showed you an example where someone was radicalized by hate speech on the internet. Here is another example. I can keep providing them if you would like.
Freedom of speech should never be given as an excuse for allowing hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism or anything else on that vein a platform.
The paradox of tolerance is not taught to as many people as it should be.
The problem comes when you let the government decide what is “hate speech, racism, bigotry, fascism”. It gives government too much power to control the opposition by censorship.
What, as apposed to corporations and companies like Twitter, Facebook and reddit? Lol
Including corporations, that’s why we are all on lemmy, is it not? 😉
What exactly do you propose to do about hate speech, racism, bigotry and fascism being spread on social media as propaganda, ignore it and hope no one sees it and gets radicalized? We’re already seeing people become terrorists after being radicalized by Internet media. and you would have us just hope we’re not in the line of fire when it happens again, I guess?
First of all, the USA is not the center of the world, the problems you guys have with mass shooting is not caused by the “hate speech”.
And again banning hate speech is just masking the deeper institutional/educational problems you have, not solving them.
I literally showed you an example where someone was radicalized by hate speech on the internet. Here is another example. I can keep providing them if you would like.
And it’s not just an American problem.
Again, should we just ignore that and hope we’re not in the line of fire?
This is a false dichotomy.