The eSafety commissioner will abandon its legal case against Elon Musk's X to have graphic footage of a terrorist stabbing removed from the social media platform.
    • thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I think democracy is already in trouble with giant mega corps controlling what we say instead.

      the risk of the government controlling it is that someone might use that for their own interest. that’s the natural and inherent state of corporate interests. i think I’d rather have a chance at meaningful regulation than hand these powers over to whoever happens to have the most money right now like we’re currently doing.

      it’s a hard problem. the great American political experiment of free speech absolutism is crumpling in the face of New technologies that amplify lies to drown out any discourse from “the marketplace of ideas”. I don’t know what should be done about that. the only government we have in America was bought and sold in the 70s. right now if America tried to regulate speech in any way it would just be a new name to the same monied interests that control what can be said on these platforms now.

      idk, were probably just fucked.