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Supreme Court weighs free speech challenges to GOP-backed social media restrictions
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Once again 'small government' conservatives decide they want to restrict constitutional freedoms. That said, I'm not sure that going after big corporations is their best move.
Also, if social media can't moderate its content, how do they stop child porn from being posted? I'm guessing SCOTUS hasn't even considered that.
It's not that they can't moderate their content at all, it's specific restrictions on how they can moderate. For example, not being allowed to ban someone who's running for political office, i.e. they're still salty about trump getting banned from twitter for a bit.
But yeah, it's fun to watch the right disregard their professed values whenever it suits them.
The other part of that is the Venn diagram of "hate speech" and "conservative voices" are one, big-ass circle.
Yeah, that too, and there's also a fair bit of overlap between "conservative voices" and "factually incorrect". Vaccines come to mind as a topic where conservatives would benefit from platforms not being allowed to weigh in on what's accurate information and what's made up nonsense.