billetea t1_j9qc22j wrote on February 23, 2023 at 8:32 PM

Reply to comment by joey_diaz_wings in Google case at Supreme Court risks upending the internet as we know it by dustofoblivion123

What absolute bullshit. We already have controls on what we discuss - terrorism, paedophilia, etc. It's not ideological to remove those discussions- It's civilisation. The problem with unfiltered social media is it leads to the congregation of idiots and evil.

Zuckerberg keeps calling it the town hall, but towns have idiots and people who are very sick in the head and they now congregate.

Previously they were ostracised and outsiders in their community but now thanks to the internet the one moron in each town who thought the world was flat now congregates with the one village idiot from the other million towns across the world making their numbers promotable by the stupid algorithms behind social media. Net result we have a rise in Flat Earth theory. Bravo for our civilisation.

I'm all for the free discourse of ideas that advance the human civilisation, but Joe and Bob down on the corner sharing their love of snuff porn or sharing photos of little kids should be excised from our society. Otherwise, we are bound for idiocracy.

joey_diaz_wings t1_j9ufmhp wrote on February 24, 2023 at 5:14 PM

We're already bound for idiocracy: look who breeds and who abstains. Demographics are destiny.

Idiots are already discussing idiotic topics when not consuming idiotic media. Accepting this, why not also allow intelligent people to discuss topics without imposing moderators who only permit opinions and ideas that can be accompanied by advertising revenue?

The idea of online "community standards" is absurd for large sites like Facebook. There is no community. People should be allowed to talk about topics of interest and organize however they like. We've even seen PayPal insist they are a "community" with standards that can impose financial penalties when people discuss ideas contrary to their baseless rules.

The crazies will do whatever they do. We should preserve some space for sane adults too where censors cannot intrude and silence us all to infantile norms.