Internet Companies Censoring Debate

It’s a complex one for me.

On the one hand what’s going on in America is disgraceful, for example and an attack on democracy, the amount of dangerous lies and conspiracies do need monitoring, however there does seem to be a bias on platforms like Twitter.

The issue we have is, these are private companies and can block whoever they want, yet they practically have a monopoly on discourse.

Alex Jones is a perfect example. The man is a total scumbag and a liar and peddles the worst conspiracies going. I’m not going to lose sleep with him being banned from Twitter but it’s where they decide to draw the line.

Even unsavoury people like Tommy Robinson or some of the pricks kicked out of the Labour Party for antisemitism deserve a voice, you can’t just cancel people and the risk we run is that private companies completely control the narrative of the internet, more so than newspapers ever could.
 
It seems that with any of the threads on this forum you can put the words 'fucking moaning about' before the thread title to get an accurate idea of its content.
 
urban genie said:
America and american social media has ruined the internet.

You see it more of the nonsense from all spectrums from yanks, and their missreading of other nations foibles
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It has indeed! American social media is like a pest infestation that isn’t healthy yet has become a large feature of global culture. Everyone seems to have their nose in US issues.

Then mainstream media starts to get on that bandwagon n’all as they think that what trends online is what’s important real world.

When Gerald Ford was elected in 1974, I doubt the BBC spent most of 9 o’clock news each night with a US reporter outside the Whitehouse informing us of the state-by-state breakdown of voting then popping over to reporters outside polling stations in some backwater US town telling us that people have been in tents for three days and what placards they were holding up. Yet it was on the ‘breaking news’ yellow ticker-tape whatsanameit at the bottom of the screen every hour every day of our 24hour dedicated news channels this year.

That country has had a B-list film actor and a reality TV host as it’s presidents over the last four decades. We should be diverting all social and mainstream media as far away from that loonybin as we possibly can. Instead, everyone seems obsessed with the place.

It’s very weird!

Even on gameshows like Pointless. Every week there are questions about American presidents, or US states and cities. It’s as if people think we’re part of that country. I’m not sure I could name every county in Great Britain, never mind know how many US states have consecutive vowels in them.

Online the obsession even worse. It’s one of the reasons I could never have a Facebook or Twitter account. I wish we could have a social and mainstream media Brexit from anything US-based.

Look at the Politcs subforum on this very website, a few weeks ago I counted that 6 of the top 8 threads were about the USA. At a time when there is Covid, Brexit, shenanigans with the Tories, shake-ups within Labour, worldwide Green issues that are miles bigger than US politics... it’s bizarre.
 
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Psychedelic Casual said:
It has indeed! American social media is like a pest infestation that isn’t healthy yet has become a large feature of global culture. Everyone seems to have their nose in US issues.

Then mainstream media starts to get on that bandwagon n’all as they think that what trends online is what’s important real world.

When Gerald Ford was elected in 1974, I doubt the BBC spent most of 9 o’clock news each night with a US reporter outside the Whitehouse informing us of the state-by-state breakdown of voting then popping over to reporters outside polling stations in some backwater US town telling us that people have been in tents for three days and what placards they were holding up. Yet it was on the ‘breaking news’ yellow ticker-tape whatsanameit at the bottom of the screen every hour every day of our 24hour dedicated news channels this year.

That country has had a B-list film actor and a reality TV host as it’s presidents over the last four decades. We should be diverting all social and mainstream media as far away from that loonybin as we possibly can. Instead, everyone seems obsessed with the place.

It’s very weird!

Even on gameshows like Pointless. Every week there are questions about American presidents, or US states and cities. It’s as if people think we’re part of that country. I’m not sure I could name every county in Great Britain, never mind know how many US states have consecutive vowels in them.

Online the obsession even worse. It’s one of the reasons I could never have a Facebook or Twitter account. I wish we could have a social and mainstream media Brexit from anything US-based.

Look at the Politcs subforum on this very website, a few weeks ago I counted that 6 of the top 8 threads were about the USA. At a time when there is Covid, Brexit, shenanigans with the Tories, shake-ups within Labour, worldwide Green issues that are miles bigger than US politics... it’s bizarre.
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Tbh I was more on about was soft arsed mard cunts they are who get eqsily upset at anything they deem offensive, along with no sense of other nations idiosyncrasies.


For example that word I just used, ****, the amount of americans you see kicking up a fuss in reply to Brits, ausies and and others that are not using it in a tweet as a vulgar mysogynistic slur, but a term of endearment, but they don't or cannot fathom that out.

You also get al lthese new wanky terms ans catagorising peoplw mainly stemming from america.

Lastly they cannot spell english words properly color ffs
 
Should Internet companies censor posts?

I think so.

Sans all censorship, you'd have ISIS recruitment videos available for the receptive to view.

The problem though - is deciding what is censored. Who decides? Should this be governed by law? What country's law applies?

What of conspiracy theories - and claims without factual basis?

Internet censorship is a challenging problem. How should Internet content be regulated for the betterment of society?
 
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