The
problems of social media sites that are owned by corporations
concerning censorship are innumerable. It is thus surprising that
more libertarian social media sites publicly owned and maintained by
users that are quite tolerant of free speech don’t much exist so
far as I know.
Social
media content tends to disappear over time if it isn’t what the
owners regard as helpful to their political or corporate benefit.
That creates big headaches for people with their content deleted.
Some of the M.S.M. would say it is extremism that is being deleted,
and of course they define for-themselves what extremism is. History
and social media is made by the victors and wealthy corporate deep
pocket owners.
Citizens
need reliable public social media infrastructure so they can write
whatever they like without concern for it disappearing They should be
assured that it will last for decades. Social media should not be an
elite media that is filtered by various exclusive others to further
their political interests. It is amusing that even the left these
days positively chortle when writing to someone being censored that
the social media is private so they can do whatever they like and
bite it therefor- get a lawyer if you want (corporate media can
afford lawyers more so than private citizens of lesser means). So
long as corporate social media supports all of the basic leftist
planks of abortion, homosexuality, legal dope and so forth the left
are happy sycophants in building the repression of free speech in the
U.S.A. Public owned social media to provide a non-volatile balance
for free speech in a free country would be a positive change.
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The
defense of freedom sometimes requires the public sector to act when
the private sector isn’t capable of providing necessary social
media themselves. It may always be the case that intelligence that is
excellent seems extreme to the average Joe Stalins and Adolph
Eichmanns occupying the banal center political stage where sycophancy
works best. If all ideas are freely expressed rather than repressed
then people can at least encounter good ideas as well as average,
heavily cloned concepts.
Forms
for publicly secure social media could be co-opts, or co-opts partly
government financed, or servers and sites sponsored by parties like
Libertarian and Green parties that are tolerant of different opinions
even if they are sent to a right or conservative frequency of their
spectrum of varieties of political speech. I believe Facebook already
sorts out material according to political persuasion to a certain
extent. Plainly more than political speech would be expressed at a
Libertarian social media site and that is good. For there are myriad
undreampt of ideas of an infinite variety of forms that can be
discovered in thought that should not be filtered or deleted by crass
corporate social media minders that are tools for brainwashing
Americans.