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m132yesterday at 8:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

Open Internet dying in front of our very eyes.

Let's not forget that social media are just one of the many scapegoats tried over the past decade in hopes of pushing this idea forwards. And while there's no denying that today's social media have gotten destructive, they're still only a scapegoat; no attempt is being made here to bring them back to their original, non-malicious shape.

Is the social media hate really so powerful that, channeled carefully, it can overshadow free speech?


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wiseowiseyesterday at 10:39 PM

> no attempt is being made here to bring them back to their original, non-malicious shape.

Social networks can revert back to original form any minute, nobody’s stopping them.

> Is the social media hate really so powerful that, channeled carefully, it can overshadow free speech?

Bots giving platform to schizos and fringe radicals is a freedom of speech?

testing22321yesterday at 9:47 PM

Has anyone ever argued that children should have full access to the entire internet?

Seems like a horribly bad idea.

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