Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. In this article, he goes socialist on the Facebook censorship issue. It’s cute socialist (cunning and made to sound reasonable). It’s still anti-free market.
The gist of it is “social media companies should be prohibited from banning anyone for lawful speech.” Let’s express this differently: Social media companies must allow all lawful speech. That’s clearly anti-free market. It forces any social media company that exists now or forms in the future into a product straitjacket whose size, scope and strength is to be determined by legal-political cases and laws.
Bokhari assumes that the term “social media” can be defined and delimited, which is not at all obvious. Does his proposed law outlaw socially-oriented web sites with specific focal points such as guns, martial arts, horror movies, gay dating, progressivism in education, planned parenthood, etc., etc. etc. from disallowing certain kinds of messages and people from participating or from focusing content on specific kinds of messages?
12:13 pm on August 28, 2018
