Comments by "Louis Giokas" (@louisgiokas2206) on "Should Freedom of Speech Extend to Social Media? (Part 1) || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. The only reason that platforms do content moderation is because of advertisers. Period! End of story! The users are not the customers of the platforms. It is the advertisers, So, if Peter or anyone else thinks they do it for some social good then they are woefully uninformed.
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  2. Some of what is said here is valid, but the thing I have a problem with is the "arbiter of truth". Think back to the COVID situation. A lot of what the government scientists said turned out not to be true. Not elected officials or bureaucrats, but scientists. If they can't get the science right, and this was because the scientists were playing politics, then what about people's opinions? This is not something that is going to be easy. In fact, it may not be possible. I would rather hear the crazy ideas so that I know what people are thinking, crazy as it may be to me. When talk radio took off, I was doing some business in the American south. When I was driving around, I would listen to the local stations. It was like another world. Of course, the media where I was (I am from Washington, DC) would never have carried this stuff. But you can't ignore it. People think it. Shutting it down on some platform does not make it go away. That is what free speech is all about. It is basically the right to air and hear any and all opinions. And don't ever, ever, ever forget (see how I did a Zeihanism) the government does not always have the best of motives. They are politicians after all, and many of them crave power over truth. I have seen it up close and personal. And as for the European Commission, if you are looking to them for guidance or leadership then you are either stark raving mad or at least undemocratic.
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