The thing that Jaffe misses, is that Milo has a platform. He's on facebook.
The problem is, no one is entitled to a specific platform. You can't take someone's time, money or property to be able to say whatever you want to say. For example, I can't start posting bad stuff on VizionEck. I also can't sue a company if they don't let me have an account.
In other words the government supports our freedom of speech, but that freedom is from the government. It doesn't entitle us to use someone else's private property to spread whatever our speech.
I know some liberals and a lot of conservatives have the view that anybody, even Nazi's should be able to have a platform.
I really like that ideal, but it's an ideal. The big danger is that someone spreading hateful things requires that someone else is able to basically correct them or we get more people believing hateful things. That is beyond dangerous.
I think in order for that ideal to be a reality, it would require smarter people to be willing to correct, and it requires that everything be truthful.
The problem is, no one is entitled to a specific platform. You can't take someone's time, money or property to be able to say whatever you want to say. For example, I can't start posting bad stuff on VizionEck. I also can't sue a company if they don't let me have an account.
In other words the government supports our freedom of speech, but that freedom is from the government. It doesn't entitle us to use someone else's private property to spread whatever our speech.
I know some liberals and a lot of conservatives have the view that anybody, even Nazi's should be able to have a platform.
I really like that ideal, but it's an ideal. The big danger is that someone spreading hateful things requires that someone else is able to basically correct them or we get more people believing hateful things. That is beyond dangerous.
I think in order for that ideal to be a reality, it would require smarter people to be willing to correct, and it requires that everything be truthful.