Social media platforms

Posts : 9063 Join date : 2022-08-13 Location : Vermont

Quote :: The Supreme Court on Monday appeared to have deep concerns of state laws enacted in Florida and Texas that would prohibit social media platforms from throttling certain political viewpoints.

The high-stakes battle gives the nation’s highest court an enormous say in how millions of Americans get their news and information, as well as whether sites such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok should be able to make their own decisions about how to moderate spam, hate speech and election misinformation.

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This is such an obvious breach of free speech that I'm wondering why it reached the Supreme Court.

Your thoughts?

Posts : 2190 Join date : 2022-08-15

During the last election, the big social media sites prevented a lot of Republican posts from being seen and even flagged them as being misinformation, even though now it's common knowledge that it was not misinformation but fact.

Subject: Re: Social media platforms Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:30 am

Social media are so new and different phenomenon that nothing is obvious about them, especially with some of them having arguable monopoly in their area.

Lämmchen wrote:: During the last election, the big social media sites prevented a lot of Republican posts from being seen and even flagged them as being misinformation, even though now it's common knowledge that it was not misinformation but fact.

And also appositely failed to flag lots of Republican posts and allowed them to be seem despite them being misinformation, as we now know.