Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Well, this is awkward.." video.
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She would be right, if Tik-Tok weren't doing the Chinese Communist Party's bidding. Look who gets censored and who doesn't get censored. China doesn't allow any of that nonsense with its own people. It's mining our data and pushing ideologies it knows are corrosive to the fabric of our free society.
If it were truly a PLATFORM, rather than a PUBLISHER, you wouldn't get banned for questioning, for example, transgender ideology.
I don't think they should set a precedent of banning Tik-Tok; however, I think that ALL platforms should behave as neutral platforms, only interfering with free expression when there's a clear violation of the law. Misinformation/disinformation are not under a platform's purview to judge. Hate speech is subjective, and therefore can't be policed by a platform.
We already have laws against slander (spoken), libel (written) lies that destroy a person's reputation. This is what defamation lawsuits are for. We already have laws against inciting violence, and by that I don't mean the BS "words are violence" thing, but actual threats of violence and urging others to commit acts of violence.
When it comes to misinformation and disinformation, the best bulwark against such speech is free speech! We all know how misinformation and disinformation from supposed "authorities" have harmed us. The only reason they caused as much harm as they did was because the authorities doing the lying also managed to silence anyone who spoke against them.
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