Social Media Platforms Should Not Be Sheriffs for Government Control

Bill Wirtz's avatarBill Wirtz

No matter of which political affiliation you are, you should be able to agree on this: there is a lot of awful content on social media. Cyber-bullying, blackmail, violations of personal privacy, antisemitism, or just sheer nonsensical abuse howled at the most innocent tweets, Facebook posts, or Instagram pictures. For a long time, social media platforms have used their community guidelines to counteract many of the content they did not want to see featured on their sites. From a contract perspective, that is only fair: I am using a platform like Facebook for no charge, and in return, I accept that parts of my personal data are being used for marketing – and that Facebook can remove content that violates their guidelines.


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