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Originally Posted by vikthunder
What happens when the Hunter Biden laptop turned out to be real?
"Oops, sorry about that, our bad? Oh, that had a big impact on the election? Sorry, it's not like we did that on purpose."
"At least we rightfully stopped those Wuhan lab leak theories from spreading."
Up next from CP...yeah FB & twitter only got a few major things wrong a few times, no big deal.
If you think FB & Twitter are above choosing sides on Palestine/Israel, you have your head in the sand. At some point, someone will decide what the truth is, and the other side will slowly disappear.
I remember when I was younger and was hearing about all the censorship in China, and how nobody over there really knows what's going on. Everyone was duped by the CCP into certain views of the world. I was thinking how is that even possible, the news has to get through somehow, right. Here we are a couple decades later with our own heads in the sand ready to take whatever version of history FB, Twitter, & Google says is real.
No site has to entertain Flat Earth or any CT you think they should.
We had that back in the early days of the Rotten Tomato's chat forum, at the time one of the earliest and biggest and it got flooded by CTers. It almost killed RT as regulars were all quitting. They then banned CT's and people came back.
You seem to think as long as one person holds a different view any business, and every business ,should be forced to post everyone's opinion.
If I want to start my own SM site tomorrow and want no Hunter Biden CT's or no Wuhan leak stuff then of course I, THE OWNER, should get to make that call.
If it turns out I was wrong and the Hunter Biden or Wuhan stuff proves out, so what. I, THE OWNER, was wrong. Business owners have ALWAYS made that call and they do sometimes get it wrong.
Suddenly when it comes to Trump Derp stuff people say 'the business owner should have no say, the users should'.
Your argument is the same one used by every single CT believer. What if they, in fact, got it right and everyone else is wrong. What if 9/11 was an inside job?
So what. Yes if 9/11 proved later to actually be an inside job I still support sites like 2+2 being able to ban such talk prior and if they are wrong later, so what?
Tell me why you think the owners should have that discretion taken away and that customers instead should dictate TOS?
If things get slanderous do you then support legal immunity for the Owners since they are being forced to allow this stuff to be posted?