Paul Nehlan proposes a "shall not censor" rule for large social media platforms

What do you think?

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lmao sure thing but we all know the daily stormer will be censored

It's not that simple. You see, for decades the Jewish porn industry fought in the courts to recognise porn as a freedom of expression issue. There used to be very clear obscenity laws that prohibited that kind of filth, but today it's no longer the case.

If you try to force youtube, facebook to be prohibited from censoring anything except for illegal content, then you will find porn inundating everything.

unless you support drumpf of course

Considering their near-99% of population coverage, unbudgeable monopoly status and near-zero accountability to their users, social media giants like Facebook and YouTube really need to regulated for increased algorithmic transparency, complete neutrality and ironclad free speech protections.
Right now these companies can do just whatever the fuck they want and quietly delete anything they don't like (or worse: soft-censor through ghostbanning, demonetization and silently removing stuff from search results/discovery feeds)

Vehemently oppose. Businesses should be free to censor whatever they like.

But what about monopolies? Which most of these platforms are

It's not like you have 1000 different options to choose from, you have 1 option, and maybe 1 alternative at most

Posting your banal opinions to a corporate website is not the same as a corporation letting you hail a cab from your phone or rent someone's house. These aren't free speech platforms, they're FREE family friendly sites with the company logo at the top of the screen. There is no argument that can justify them not fully controlling the content posted on their website. Population coverage being 1% or 99% makes no difference - you cannot possibly enforce the former, there is too many Websites, so it's lunacy to say the cutoff for regulation starts at X%.

I think that we should make a Paul Nehlen General

You literally have hundreds of thousands of social platforms to choose from.

But the big ones dominate 90% of the market
Look it up, it's called a "network monopoly". It's a type of natural monopoly, that must be regulated

Basically, the value of your service is partially proportional to the # of people using that service. It means that one firm will inevitably dominate the market.

pic related, a quick primer on Natural Monopolies

>twitter.com/pnehlen/status/941370447278440448
Burger proposing to force companies to do something they don't want.

The timeline we life in...

Haha these are private companies dork we should let them censor us on behalf of the establishment and just accept being a slave. Remember it’s their private property haha the free market will fix it hahahaha

Newsflash retard, this is what corporate tyranny looks like. All censorship should be violently opposed. We do not have a free market so regulations must be imposed, and governments should be destroyed that refuse to uphold regulation to protect rights.

It brings no profits, therefore it won't be implemented.

>logically, if I'm against censorship, porn should not be banned
>this upsets me

Yes soyboy we’ll keep posting cultural Marxist filth to Facebook and let google censor all but what we want them to see, you go and enjoy your echo chambers while we manipulate the public

Remember we’re a private company and we’re sacred!

I mean have you seen half the google searches these days? You go looking for information on a hot topic like climate change, vaccination, fracking, the Syrian war etc and the first few pages are ducking curated with lefty blogs like slate so it looks like a consensus. Also I’ve noticed google does not ever allow breitbart, zerohedge etc to appear before page 5 or so even if they have an article which makes a good argument against and is well sourced

Not the narrative? Don’t even think about it goy

And only 2-3 are actually relevant.

Porn is Jewish degeneracy. It used to be illegal and it should be again.

I mean, obviously it won't get any further than one loony's ravings, but you have to admit it'd be hilarious to watch it being struck down on First Amendment grounds.

You some special kind of stupid? Google has several alternatives. Facebook has several alternatives. YouTube has several alternatives. And if they don't, start your own. Boom. Problem solved. The free market always wins.

>start your own
Who's going to use your platform with 3 users?

How are you going to get funding to start your competing service, when the big monopoly's have hundreds of billions at their disposal?

Facebook appeared outta nowhere when myspace was flourishing, for instance. They offered a better service (compared to the shit myspace was doing) and it prevailed, without billions at its disposal.

so the monopoly changed hands, it's still a monopoly.

Whoever runs it is in the position to abuse the consumer, as we've seen from Facebook with it's political censorship and trampling of consumer privacy

Brainlets don’t understand that libertarianism only works from a fresh civilisation, they think changing things to a free market right now will be a benefit

The point is that even if it's a "monopoly", people chose to use its services, with was illustrated more-or-less in the myspace/facebook scenario.

People voluntarely go to twitter/facebook/youtube, so you could call it a voluntary monopoly. We see today the alttech flourishing because of stupid shit these companies are doing regarding censorship and people are VOLUNTARELY signing off them, which is different from the situation in your pic.

The pic is illustrating a principle, what happens when a private company is given a natural monopoly. For example, if a private company got control of your sewer system, your electrical grid, your water system....etc.

Network monopolies are slightly different. The more people use it, the more value it has, so as long as you offer a bare minimum of service, if everyone is using it, you will still dominate the market (who is going to use a service with 10 users, even if that service is slightly better?)

Not only that, but having a monopoly position gives them the bankroll to hire the best software development team, the best design team, the best everything, ensuring that they will continue to steamroll absolutely everyone else, and be able to meet any challenger easily.

These monopolies should be regulated. Demanding that a network monopoly provide the same speech protections all Americans have on a public street is not a bad idea

He's right, being autistically libertarian on this subject should be punishable by death.

Truth:
>These platforms are already regulated
>These platforms profit greatly by hosting verified accounts of the State

On one hand, libertarians are not doing anything (noticable) that will reduce govt involvement with these corporations. On the other, they are shilling against regulation without which these corporations (already involved with govt) will eventually have them banned and murder their message forever.

>Demanding that a network monopoly provide the same speech protections all Americans have on a public street is not a bad idea
I concur with this point, but I have to disagree with the rest. I do see where you're coming from though.

I reiterate the fact that the alttech is growing nowadays despite the consolidated monopolies, which goes against "steamrolling the competition". Heck, even when facebook and other tech companies consolidated themselves back in the day, Twitter still found a way through it and consolidated as well.

In the net the playfield is totally different from that of the picture, because people do have a choice to associate with those services. Facebook only grew because people got pissed with myspace, Twitter grew because its format appeased the people.

Depends who's in charge. If Nehlen is proposing a fashy version of the CFPB with built-in right-wing death squads when a future administration tries to tamper with it, then I'm game.