Because people insist that Something Must Be Done and the state's not doing it. Even EU regulators don't want to do things, they want to push big tech firms to do it.
Beatings are unlikely though. It's not something you can do with a datacenter.
How are people so utterly naive as to think Facebook would not be awash in terrorism, calls for death etc. if it were not censored?
People are rightly upset Facebook is being used to forment ethnic wars in other countries, if you think things are 'bad' now, imagine what FB would be like unfettered?
'Here I am cutting off the heads of XYZ group, please send money!'
All systems will be abused, and the systems to censor them will be abused ... so we have to do our best with all of that.
It's a bit ridiculous all of this is happening, that OnlyFans guy should probably be in jail.
Yes, I agree that moderation is important and I think Big Tech companies are trying to do this job under difficult conditions. But someone said that they didn’t like private companies taking state responsibilities, and I’m wondering what the statist alternative would actually look like? Maybe that governments run their own social networks, similar to how they maintain public parks where people can gather? Not sure how it would work. People complaining about private companies doing the moderation don’t seem to be proposing alternatives to it.
Yes, there should be public social networks. Even if it is slow and you have to clean your spam every day, it is now as essential as roads and electricity. Governments around the world guarantee the right to free speech and association but in practice this isn't happening. I wonder which country will be the first one to launch a public utility messaging/social feed app.
Beatings are unlikely though. It's not something you can do with a datacenter.