Yeah I sorta agree. I think following government policy rather than making their own decision is a good way to avoid them being responsible for any really bad political blunders.
But at the same time, yeah, it would be kinda nice if they could take a stand. Not on any seriously complicated issues like Kashmir, but when it’s just a jingoistic fascist doing jingoistic nationalism? Yeah, it’d be good if they put their foot down and said “no, that’s BS, and we’re not going to enable it”. For the same reason I don’t like Facebook hiding behind “it’s free speech” when excusing the (entirely technically legal) hate speech they allow on their platform.
Yeah I sorta agree. I think following government policy rather than making their own decision is a good way to avoid them being responsible for any really bad political blunders.
But at the same time, yeah, it would be kinda nice if they could take a stand. Not on any seriously complicated issues like Kashmir, but when it’s just a jingoistic fascist doing jingoistic nationalism? Yeah, it’d be good if they put their foot down and said “no, that’s BS, and we’re not going to enable it”. For the same reason I don’t like Facebook hiding behind “it’s free speech” when excusing the (entirely technically legal) hate speech they allow on their platform.