John Stossel: the best answer to the speech we do not like is: more speech
John Stossel: the best answer to the speech we do not like is: more speech
http://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsGloria Álvarez, the young Guatemalan girl I wrote last week, has just been blocked by Facebook. Why? Because she criticizes socialism.
After Álvarez joined me in my American studio to make a video that we titledSocialism fails every time, "She flew to Mexico City to make a speech.
A few days later, he wrote to me that "some" left "students published on a fan page" Marxist and Leninist Memes ":" BOICOTT Gloria Alvarez at our university! We will not let her in! "
Then Alvarez published (in Spanish) on his own Facebook page: "My dear intolerant Mexican socialists: Thank you! for trying to boycott my event ... show that panic you have for the debate of ideas. Given that theirs are so bad, that only bullets can be obeyed as in Venezuela and Nicaragua. Prove once again that you are intolerant of freedom. "
He finished his riff with a wise defense of freedom of expression: "When words are exchanged, bullets are no longer exchanged."
Then your account was blocked.
"You recently published something that violates Facebook's policies," Facebook wrote.
What violated Facebook's policies? Were the people who demanded that they not allowed to speak "intolerant of socialists" whose ideas "are so bad that only bullets can be obeyed"?
When social media companies block you, the reason is often mysterious.
Facebook said: "For more information, visit the Help Center ... (U) understand the Facebook community standards." Good luck getting an explanation that way.
Alvarez suspects that she was blocked because her opponents, boycott advocates, complained about her. The leftists are good at launching campaigns to silence people.
Fortunately, Alvarez has connections. A few days later, she wrote: "A friend of mine who has a cousin working at Facebook Latin America helped me unlock my site this morning."
Good.
Except, most of us do not have a friend whose cousin works for Facebook.
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other social media platforms are promoted as sites that improve communication, do not censor it.
You should not use the word "censor". When a private company blocks someone, it's called editing. Companies edit to increase civil communication, improve the quality of the discussion, eliminate threats and lies, etc. The edition helps make your sites more pleasant places to visit.
Censorship and the First Amendment apply to governments. The founders of the United States feared the censorship of the government because the government can use force and we only have one government.
But if Facebook blocks me, I can still communicate via Twittermy Youtube videos or Instagram.
But wait. Facebook bought Instagram. And Google bought YouTube. If these big companies eliminate me, it will be difficult to reach people.
Conservatives claim that social media companies are quicker to censor conservative discourse. That's probably true. People who work for social networking companies lean to the left. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that by telling CNN, "We need to constantly show that we are not adding our own bias, what I completely admit is that there is more inclination towards the left."
That's why conservative sites like PragerU have been limited by YouTube. Restricting the videos of Prager University is absurd. The site has millions of followers. It offers worthy lectures on conservative philosophy. They explain things that my Princeton professors never taught me.
Conferences do not violate YouTube or Facebook standards. But recently, PragerU discovered that some of his Facebook videos were not seen by anyone. Zero people
Subsequently, he apologized and said that someone marked the PragerU videos as "hate speech", and at least one Facebook "content monitor" of Facebook agreed. I was being "retrained," Facebook said.
Good luck with that.
The right Alex Jones was banned by all major social media platforms. Milo Yiannopoulos was banned by Twitter.
But I have not seen enough data to convince me that the sites actively limit conservative discourse alone. Facebook has just deleted 800 political pages, including some that criticize police brutality.
The leftist Glenn Greenwald tweeted after that purge: "Those who demanded that Facebook and other giants of Silicon Valley censor the political content ... are finding that the content they themselves support and likewise end up being repressed. happened to all the defenders of censorship in history. "
The best answer to the discourse we do not like is: more discourse.
I like to be able to listen to numerous opinions, even if I do not agree with them.
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