Yes when they ban the liberals

And trolls

troll confirmed

@WAR so you dismiss what we say and call us liberals

let's go back to the question,shall we?
so if we pass a law enforcing the first ammendment on social media it might not be so important to snowball into a more authoritarian US government

I mean,remember the PATRIOT act?

That assumes authoritarianism is bad

authoritarianism isn't inherently good or bad, it depends on what it sets out to accomplish and what its results are

well

I like to use the PRC as an example of when a politician gets way too much power

the communist party basically owns all the other parties and the politicians in it

Xi Jinping basically makes himself stay in office until he retires

and nothing can overthrow him

“Nothing”

Hmm

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name one politician that can oppose to Xi Jinping (internally to the PRC)

Chiang Kai-shek

in modern terms sperg

hi

so what debate do we have going on here

whether we should regulate social media to ensure free speech or not

A internet bill of rights essentially?

and now seems like whether authoritarianism is bad or not
pretty much,yeah

Yeah we really should

have a internet bill of rights

and as big oof it does depend on what authoritarianism is

The term isn't inherently good or bad

I'd just limit it to enforce the first ammendment on social media
I don't think it'd give more power to the government to get into private companies' business than the PATRIOT act already does

I agree with you

free speech is important no matter how radical the ideas are

in fact hate speech will only worsen the situation by outlawing thoughts

as this means they don't need to be contested with and they only attract sympathizers who will actually listen to them and get radicalized themselves without opposition

👍

so that's my thoughts on it

from a Communist lol

I mean, I feel like the communistic way to approach it would be to simply nationalize social networking sites and place them directly under the oversight of government

and then guarantee free speech by means of public ownership

now would that work in an actual communist society?

well,you know the rest

Well yeah it would.