Trump threatens to crack down on social media platforms

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(05-28-2020, 04:02 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Here's where Trump haters run into problems. Just because he's a buffoon doesn't mean he's always completely off point. Social media has protections based on the assumption that they are a platform for the views of others, not a content creator. If you are a platform then you need to be an equal opportunity platform, much like the baker who was censured for not making a gay wedding cake your rules must apply equally. If you are not enforcing terms of service in an equal manner than you are, by definition, discriminating, something I think we can all agree is wrong. That this is actually happening has been demonstrated on numerous occasions; e.g. person reports tweet flaming men and said tweet is not censured. Same person tweets exact same quote replacing "men" with "women" and is censured. I absolutely understand that there is a human element to this but I think there is a very credible argument to be made that TOS is not equally applied on many social media platforms.

Here's my argument with this, though. I want these rules applied equally. The problem is that right now, based on the current political climate, even if as objective an approach as you could code were applied the efforts would disproportionately impact right-wing posters. They literally discovered this at Facebook while researching a policy to apply and then shelved it for this reason. This isn't to say that lefties don't come up with some whack-a-doodle shit, we all know they do, but the current climate is with the right-wing pumping out more dis and misinformation so they would have more actions taken against them.