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Okay ๐คทโโ๏ธ
EDIT They can say whatever they want. But so can you. So where's the problem?
On facebook and Twitter and others, we cannot say whatever we want. Truth is suppressed while disinformation is allowed. Saying LGBTQ+ people are mentally ill is allowed but mentioning even the word "cisgender" is suppressed. LGBTQ+ content will get removed for being "sexual content" but straight content that's equivalent will be allowed. LGBTQ+ people face repeated harrassment on these platforms, sometimes to the level of terrorism; if they don't feel safe posting about LGBTQ+ topics, they cannot say whatever they want. Hell, they get doxed but there's rarely repercussions for the doxers.
Imagine if I spread lies about you, call you a pedophile, doxx you and then someone SWATs you; would you still feel like you can say anything?
Equality and fairness does not exist on these social platforms.
The problem is that people are vulnerable to disinformation and now there is little to no pushback on these platforms.
In a world where people are expert critical thinkers with no biases and perfect rationality it wouldn't matter, but that isn't how people work in the slightest.
Who gets to decide what's disinformation?
Once upon a time, scientific consensus classified homosexuality as a mental disorder.
This is why psychology is a soft science and not worthy of the authority afforded to hard sciences.
Social sciences are important even if finding truth is messier and happens over a longer period.
In any case, misinformation is often not something that can argued as just a difference of opinion. There are obvious cases like outright lies about the occurrence of events such as "immigrants eating pets en masse" or "the bowling green massacre", or that the "greenhouse warming effect" doesn't exist.
Fact checking doesn't have to be outright removal either, it just needs a critical analysis of the facts, and people can make up their own minds.
Social sciences are important, but treating their conclusions as absolute fact the same way we would hard sciences shouldn't be encouraged.
oooh. now do economics!!
The problem with economics is that people think that the best economy is one where the richest people make the most amount of money as quickly as possible.
The problem is that people want to censor what they don't want to see for others.
"If I don't like it, then neither should you."
No, no, no. Some people can say as they choose, some cannot. In any case, we're all forced to listen to it and participate.
Who's forcing you to read half baked reckons on FB?
Exactly my point. No one is forced to read bullshit on FB.
There is little to no repercussions for Meta.