I think companies like Youtube and reddit and so on will just end up shooting themselves in the foot with these bannings as people will just flock to other competitor sites so all this is doing is bolstering them.
People say this but don't realize the type of monopoly that large social media companies have. Facebook and Twitter are the top two social media sites and there isn't a single other platform that's going to get close. Instagram maybe, but that isn't used often in political discourse, and it's owned by Facebook regardless so the policies are going to be identical. People can flock over where ever they want, their voices aren't going to be heard.
I realize it, but people trickling away can grow into a ravenous ravine gushing users away eventually, especially when more and more users are being censored and even banned which forces them to go elsewhere. These big companies can lose their dominance also. Remember myspace??? If something better comes along then social media sites can go the way of the dodo or myspace. I don't think Facebook and Twitter are invincible, though if anything did threaten their dominance they'd probably just buy buy them out like Facebook bought Instagram and Whatsapp amongst other things.
It's futile anyway as you can't shut everyone up. Unless people are posting things that are illegal they should just let people be and encourage people to just block users on sites like YouTube and Twitter if they don't like what people are saying.
The issue of companies adopting a policy like this is that it creates a toxic platform that invites controversies and drives advertisers out. Reddit had this problem when they had subreddits that were dedicated to posting hate against fat people (r/fatpeoplehate) and underage girls (r/jailbait). Both communities were banned ages ago, and both communities were probably "technically" legal.
I think this is more of an issue of how those companies advertising system works and they should be able to find a way not to show ads for Coca Cola and McDonalds on problematic users or pages. I remember the first youtube adpocalypse and they the just kind of did a blanket ban on anything that might barely cross the line, including using profanity and so on, but what they should have done it just let advertisers choose what sort of channels or content they want to be associated with. I get that Coca Cola and Disney don't want to be advertising on ISIS videos and people with edgy content, but there are also advertisers who do want to advertise with the edgier crowd and there is a huge market for that content.
Banning people just because they say something liberals don't like shouldn't be going on and I hope people do start using other sites where they allow free speech. Places like Twitter have just become like an echo chamber for idiots and people screaming into the void desperate to be heard. Half the time the only things that are trending negativity and trying to get people 'cancelled'.
Agreed. Twitter's favorite pastime is digging up 15 year old statements and trending the hashtag ___isoverparty because cancel culture is mortally virtuous apparently.
Yup, this stuff is getting very pathetic. There should be some sort of statute of limitations on this sort of stuff. People shouldn't have to apologize for things they said ten years ago. I mean how far back do we go??? I used to piss the bed and suck on my mom's tits so should that be held against me at some point? Back in high school practically half the school used to use the word 'gay' to mean something shitty. If I'd have had twitter back then I'm sure I would have used it, but I wasn't homophobic then and I'm not now. People say stupid shit but it's their intent that should be looked at. The blackface controversy is another thing. There's a very big difference between actual blackface which is obviously meant to denigrate and mock an entire race based on gross stereotypes and then comedians doing an impression of a person who happens to be black. I mean, there are actual KKK members and people who would love to hurt you because of your skin color but I don't think Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon are two of them. I actually think it would be more discriminatory if comedians actually did a blanket ban on making jokes that involve black people bbut libtards are gonna libtard.
