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Civil Liberties

Fiendish Thingy

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5. Cohn sounds like a libertarian.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Dec 21, 2021, 09:45 AM

Dec 2021

I think social media platforms should be classified as publishers, and held responsible for the content they publish. Just like a book publisher or magazine, if they allow libelous material or something that harms a community or incites violence, they should able to be sued.

No First amendment censorship, just accountability.

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"[Robert] Reich has two ideas that he thinks don't undermine free speech. He's simply wrong." [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 OP

Reich is wrong a lot of times, especially in a lot of his economic pronouncements JohnSJ Dec 2021 #1

"Society's problems can't all be fixed by law." sop Dec 2021 #2

Did they fix them? Ocelot II Dec 2021 #3

These laws didn't fail, they were undone by opponents precisely because they were working. sop Dec 2021 #4

Cohn sounds like a libertarian. Fiendish Thingy Dec 2021 #5