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Nudity is an easy one, nobody will be annoyed if you decide to remove nudity from your platform, especially if it's in an attempt to avoid CSAM. Even here most instances accept a large margin of error to do so.
Not everyone agrees that swastika tattoos should be removed from online platforms. It's not even just nazis, free speech absolutists will totally disagree with the message, but still argue that they have a right to post it.
I don't agree that shit should be left up personally, but I also don't think Meta should be the one deciding what can and can't be posted on their platforms aside from the obvious violence and nudity. Crazy thing is they actually agree. They've been lobbying governments to regulate social media content moderation for ages, but nobody will touch it and look like they're going after "free speech".
So wait... you're telling me that if you owned a social media platform, it shouldn't be left up to YOU what people post on that platform? Am I understanding this correctly?
We're not talking a Lemmy instance here, Facebook has 3 billion users. No, I don't think they should be deciding what people can and can't post there.
Edit: Wow, very surprised at the immediate response on here. Lemmy's favourite thing is shitting on Facebook, but you want them to globally decide which content can and can't be shared? Lol alright
I'd love to hear your explanation of "free speech".
Did you actually read my comment before replying? I'm not a "free speech absolutist", I think they're bullshit, but I also don't think Meta should be the one who decides where that line is.
So Meta should allow all speech then? If they are not to be deciding where the line is?
I've already pretty clearly said that governments should regulate this, not Meta. How could you even interpret my comments to mean "allow everything"?
I'm guessing this bullshit line of questioning is an attempt to convince yourself that I'm the type of person you've already decided I am in your head, which is pretty fucking lame. Not everyone has to live in political extremes.
the government shouldn't regulate speech either. you're exactly the kind of person i pegged you to be.