Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Politics & Current Affairs => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on July 22, 2020, 10:13:05 AM
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While there is obvious madness in the QAnon stuff and while there has been some violence linked to it not sure I'm comfortable with this type of action.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53495316
This covers some of the madness
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-53416247
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At at time when we're seeing these platforms subverted by hostile governments to try to influence democratic processes, something needs to be done - I'd personally rather they took some of the obscene profits they're failing to pay adequate tax on and did their job as media companies to properly curate and edit their output properly rather than stick their heads in the sand and pretend that's not their role, but in the absence of that the crude editorial tool of not distributing that output will suffice.
O.
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At at time when we're seeing these platforms subverted by hostile governments to try to influence democratic processes, something needs to be done - I'd personally rather they took some of the obscene profits they're failing to pay adequate tax on and did their job as media companies to properly curate and edit their output properly rather than stick their heads in the sand and pretend that's not their role, but in the absence of that the crude editorial tool of not distributing that output will suffice.
O.
The problem to me though is that this seems to limit what is said too much. If the content is just barking as the Wayfair stuff is then it doesn't seem to me to merit removal. It's a way too simplistic approach and will merely fuel the idea that there is a conspiracy