"But someone saying they don't believe the election results should not be silenced. Its their right to free speech and the US constitution guarantees it."
This isn't right.
1) This is not about people disputing the election results. That happens in plain day on new News and other places and it's uncensored. The current concern is about inciting violence, talking about kidnapping people on capitol hill etc..
2) There is really no '1st Amendment' argument on any of these platforms, it literally doesn't apply. You don't have any right whatsoever to say anything via Apple's App Store, or on Parler. It's entirely up to them and the 1st Amendment has nothing to do with it. Those platforms deal in content, so they can do as they please - for better or for worse.
"The whole reason you had a bunch of desperate crazies storming congress is an extreme effort to silence speech"
Again - this is completely upside down.
The President using the legitimate authority of his office to spread outright lies in the face of all evidence is what is 'causing the problem'.
The fact we have 1000 different ways to communicate with each other and amplify misinformation is enabling much of this to take place in the commons - not the other way around.
It's completely disingenuous to suggest that the 'lack of information on Facebook and Twitter' is somehow 'the problem' when it's Trump's usage of said platforms to spread absolutely false information that is driving people to anger.
FYI - you can say anything you want about 'election fraud' on Twitter, FB, in the news, on so many platforms and nobody will bother with you.
We need integrity in all of our systems.
That said it'd be better if large corporations were not having to wade in with policy.
This isn't right.
1) This is not about people disputing the election results. That happens in plain day on new News and other places and it's uncensored. The current concern is about inciting violence, talking about kidnapping people on capitol hill etc..
2) There is really no '1st Amendment' argument on any of these platforms, it literally doesn't apply. You don't have any right whatsoever to say anything via Apple's App Store, or on Parler. It's entirely up to them and the 1st Amendment has nothing to do with it. Those platforms deal in content, so they can do as they please - for better or for worse.
"The whole reason you had a bunch of desperate crazies storming congress is an extreme effort to silence speech"
Again - this is completely upside down.
The President using the legitimate authority of his office to spread outright lies in the face of all evidence is what is 'causing the problem'.
The fact we have 1000 different ways to communicate with each other and amplify misinformation is enabling much of this to take place in the commons - not the other way around.
It's completely disingenuous to suggest that the 'lack of information on Facebook and Twitter' is somehow 'the problem' when it's Trump's usage of said platforms to spread absolutely false information that is driving people to anger.
FYI - you can say anything you want about 'election fraud' on Twitter, FB, in the news, on so many platforms and nobody will bother with you.
We need integrity in all of our systems.
That said it'd be better if large corporations were not having to wade in with policy.