Thought For the Day

My guess is this really happened, and even if it didn’t, the fact that we have to ask the question “is this real?” speaks volumes, as the saying goes. My favorite (/sarc) part of all of this is the sheer arrogance of the management of these “social media” giants, unleashing squads of self-worshipping “wokesters” to “determine” whether someone’s speech is acceptable or not. Someone correct me if I’m wrong here, but didn’t the legislation that shields these firms from liability for their content require them to be neutral carriers, rather than editors, of what passes through their servers? If so, they (i.e., Twitter and Facebook for sure, and probably more) seem clearly to have disqualified themselves from the liability shield and should now be subject to all civil actions. That is separate from, and in addition to, the antitrust liability to which they also should be subjected, in my view. I believe both Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act could easily be applied to the unholy alliance of Twitter, Facebook, Google, and probably also Microsoft, in the “social media space”, as today’s marketing jargon might put it. That could be a lot of fun to watch.