You’ve placed the bar so low that this suggests there is nothing an individual person can say or do that would warrant being banned, which is frankly bullshit. Every forum has rules, including this one, as it should. This is critical for maintaining a place of a discussion that is actually useful. I see no reason why “yeah but they’re popular” should give license to skirt the rules.
Freedom of speech, in the US at least, exists specifically to prevent the state from restricting speech. That’s all it is, and all it needs to be. Banning users from a private website does not contradict this.
The suggestion that unbanning Alex Jones makes the service less susceptible to ‘ignorant propaganda’ is also laughable.
You claimed “he shouldn’t have been banned”. Yet by your logic, any service is justified in banning any user for any reason, thus there is no reason that he should not have been banned in the first place.
He shouldn’t have in my opinion. Nothing he posted is any worse than half the other crap that was on twitter. I favor free speech over censorship any day.
With the block button, you can easily filter out the noise. Twitter allows knowingly false information and even criminal activity on there. Alex did not cross the criminal line which is where I think free speech can be ignored.
I feel the block button is the best way to handle most things but I do agree in some situations, the service provider should block content that is in that grey area.
You’ve placed the bar so low that this suggests there is nothing an individual person can say or do that would warrant being banned, which is frankly bullshit. Every forum has rules, including this one, as it should. This is critical for maintaining a place of a discussion that is actually useful. I see no reason why “yeah but they’re popular” should give license to skirt the rules.
Freedom of speech, in the US at least, exists specifically to prevent the state from restricting speech. That’s all it is, and all it needs to be. Banning users from a private website does not contradict this.
The suggestion that unbanning Alex Jones makes the service less susceptible to ‘ignorant propaganda’ is also laughable.
Do you agree that X can have their own rules, then? As such, Elon can allow Alex a forum if he wants.
Yes? The point is that his rules are shit, thus his website is shit.
Then you are agreeing with what I said.
You claimed “he shouldn’t have been banned”. Yet by your logic, any service is justified in banning any user for any reason, thus there is no reason that he should not have been banned in the first place.
He shouldn’t have in my opinion. Nothing he posted is any worse than half the other crap that was on twitter. I favor free speech over censorship any day.
With the block button, you can easily filter out the noise. Twitter allows knowingly false information and even criminal activity on there. Alex did not cross the criminal line which is where I think free speech can be ignored.
I refer to my original reply. Your bar is so low that it would turn any forum into garbage.
I don’t want the average person trying to decide what is ‘misinformation’. The average person is an idiot.
We had the Whitehouse asking social media to censor content they didn’t agree with. That is a big no-no.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/business/appeals-court-first-amendment-social-media.html
I feel the block button is the best way to handle most things but I do agree in some situations, the service provider should block content that is in that grey area.