Censorship For Unity

by Paul Jacob, Contributing Author: “Social media has given extremists a novel tool alongside which to recruit together with radicalise,” writes British Labour MP Lucy Powell inwards The Guardian.

And merely where are people “being exposed to extremist material”?

On Facebook!

“Instead of minor meetings inwards pubs or obscure websites inwards the darkest corners of the internet,” she explains, “our favourite social media site is increasingly where loathe is cultivated.”

Sharing ideas that she opposes is unsafe because they speedily spread. But her master copy ire is directed against individual “Facebook groups,” an surround she argues “normalises these think views” because “critics are removed from the groups.”

Apparently, the employment alongside Facebook is that it is opened upward — and that it is closed. Facebook is something novel together with unsafe because everybody uses it. Yet, because it allows shut groups, it is something really much similar . . . “small meetings inwards pubs.”

Ms. Powell has, naturally enough, proposed a bill. “The responsibleness to regulate these social media platforms falls on the government,” she asserts. “I believe nosotros tin forcefulness those who run these echo chambers to postage out the evil that is currently together with thus prominent.”

Like whatsoever politician, she talks upward unity, of course. She demands the authorities foreclose social media from “being hijacked past times those who instead wishing to divide.”

But remember, she is a fellow member of a political political party that opposes other parties. She is trying to suppress divisions that exist. The implication of her agenda is a one-party state, where opposition is suppressed.*

By censorship.

H5N1 give-and-take she somehow neglects to use.

Online extremism, she writes, “is something nosotros are frighteningly unequipped to bargain with.”

I’d say she is frighteningly equipped.

This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.

* Social media critic Dave Cullen notices that MP Lucy Powell admits that at that topographic point is a huge personal chemical cistron here: she is a politico who doesn’t similar criticism.
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Paul Jacob is writer of Common Sense which provides daily commentary virtually the issues impacting America together with virtually the citizens who are doing something virtually them. He is also President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) every bit good every bit Citizens inwards Charge Foundation. Jacob is a contributing writer on the .

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