Suggesting that Facebook, YouTube, or whatever should be shut down is folly.

[Haggard Celine]

10. I agree that we can't shut those platforms down.

The problem I have with some of the speech on Facebook and others is the proliferation of dangerously false information. It's one thing if someone starts a platform called Bullshit and everybody understands that people are just posting lies. But if people start believing everything on Bullshit and it affects public health, there needs to be a way to stop people from posting garbage about how the vaccines are poison and how horse paste is the best cure for what ails us.

I realize that there are concerns about free speech. Some people are free speech absolutists, like Alex Jones. They push the limit all the way with the trash they put out, and they in turn endanger free speech more than any censor ever would. It's a problem without an easy answer, but something is going to have to be done about it sooner or later. Some of that 'free speech' is a danger to the peace and public health.