Subj : Re: SCOTUS & Social Media
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Thu Jun 02 2022 17:16:28

On 02 Jun 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> > Additionally, supporters of the bill, who are conservatives, say that it
 MP> > purpose is to prevent social media companies from banning people based o
 MP> > their political ideology. So they're in fact saying that hate speech and
 MP> > other violations of Facebook's community standards are integral to the
 MP> > conservative political ideology. But we already knew that.
 MP> No, you spun hate speech into it here, too.  Political ideology does not
 MP> equate directly to hate speech.  Using Facebook in your example is
 MP> slippery as they do not apply their own standards evenly.

No, political ideology does not equate directly to hate speech. However, when
there is overlap, there is an attempt to label hate speech as political
ideology so that one can claim that one's political ideology is being
censored. Facebook's standards don't moderate political ideology at all, but
they do moderate hate speech. That should be clue #1.

Jeff.

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