I find this rambling, repetitive, and wrong. What happens if we don't censor? Violence? Trump wins the election? Twitter dies?
The example he uses is the lab leak hypothesis which is the worst example he could have picked. Lab leak was unsayable for months then it became mainstream and nothing happened. Are we seriously supposed to think Twitter would have collapsed if lab leak hadn't been censored for N months?
It is true that moderation, which amounts to censorship, is required on these platforms. But the bar for moderation should be way higher and these platforms should stop playing whack-a-mole with "dangerous ideas". If they do stop, I predict that nothing bad will happen.
Some people sent death threats to Fauci over the lab leak hypothesis as they blamed him for funding some research at the Wuhan lab. Real, taxpayer, money had to be spent on his security detail.
Once again - people who claimed that the lab leak hypothesis was 100% verifiably true were in the wrong, people who talked about it as one of the theories were unnafected.
The example he uses is the lab leak hypothesis which is the worst example he could have picked. Lab leak was unsayable for months then it became mainstream and nothing happened. Are we seriously supposed to think Twitter would have collapsed if lab leak hadn't been censored for N months?
It is true that moderation, which amounts to censorship, is required on these platforms. But the bar for moderation should be way higher and these platforms should stop playing whack-a-mole with "dangerous ideas". If they do stop, I predict that nothing bad will happen.