r/FreeSpeech • u/[deleted] • Jul 10 '19
Congressman explains why suppressing unwanted speech is dangerous to a free society
https://youtu.be/fkw6e5KU3mY68
u/King_Brutus Jul 10 '19
Did she really just say that YouTube was politically neutral? That's rich.
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u/RealFunction Jul 10 '19
"hate speech" is censorious communist nonsense and is just about as unamerican and anti-american as chanting "death to america", and any american company trying to excuse its moronic policies with it should be ashamed.
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Jul 11 '19
It's sad that after all these years, this needs to be explained...wtf.
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u/duffmanhb Aug 02 '19
Remember when progressives were the ones fighting the fight for free speech? Liberal coastal comedians have been defending it until just recently. Now there is a divide within the left, which I find so fucking odd. Free speech is like a progressive Halmark that had to be painfully taken back from the religious right.
Now it’s fucking conspiracy theorists like Motherfucking Alex Jones leading the charge.
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Aug 03 '19
Yea, it's completely bizarre. I guess when you're one of these fuckers (religious right or leftist) you're only for free speech when your narrative is getting suppressed. When it becomes the dominant narrative, you flip to wanting to suppress competing narratives. I seem to recall that the right used just as much social pressure to suppress as the left does now, but the difference is the left actually has politicians advocating suppression as law now. I don't remember that happening on the right. Could be wrong.
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u/BVHunter Jul 23 '19
Neil Potts is full of shit. Alexandria Walden is also full of shit. There is nothing free and open about Facebook nor Youtube. They ARE publishers. FACT... They should lose all safe harbor protections as they ACTUALLY do curate content. The fact that they use algorithms to do it proves that they are publishers. They purposefully suppress content, speech and ideas that are not congruent with their agendas.
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u/Do0ozy Jul 10 '19
The reddit mods need to take a page from this guys book.
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u/HappyManYes Sep 17 '19
I have been banned from many subs for no reason. Politics sub, world nrws sub etc. Reddit is bs
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u/SteamedHamsInAlbany Nov 12 '19
If you're too much of a contrarian in most subs they ban you. Even if its a sub that has constant posts about free speech violations.
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u/--_-_o_-_-- Dec 02 '19
The right to counter other speech is retained even if someone is banned from social media platforms. We know this because anyone can approach Alex Jones and gets his opinion.
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Dec 02 '19
You're also free to climb to the top of a ski slope and then ski down instead of taking the lift, but no one does it because the effort needed is prohibitive.
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u/yurbenne Aug 14 '19
Support the galactic republic to save the galaxy from ruin! All hail supreme chancellor palpatine!
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u/A3holes Aug 31 '19
But no one has brought up AI. What directs what you see next? AI puts people in a bubble, which cause inequality in what you view. Go on a YouTube binge on a specific controversial train of thought. It will not recommend contrary or opposite train of thoughts, it wants you to continue your binge. I’ve noticed this takes several YouTube binges, but nonetheless.
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Oct 07 '19
as an Indian citizen most thing I appreciate about America is Freedom of speech. Freedom of expression without physically harming anyone.
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u/SteamedHamsInAlbany Nov 12 '19
This speech has to be taken with a huge grain of salt since it comes from a Trump loving republican. Anyone who thinks the Trump right is on the side of free speech has their heads in the sand.