Guest
F.H. Buckley
Show Date
July 14, 2019
Categories
Related Shows
The One Book You Must Read to Understand American Politics in 2018
F.H. Buckley on *The Way Back: Restoring the Promise of America*
Has America Become an "Elective Monarchy"?
F.H. Buckley on *The Republic of Virtue*
Social Media Censorship
Free Your Minds From Social Media Censorship
Whose Free Speech? Our Free Speech!
Freedom *From* Speech? The New Face of Censorship
Free Speech – There is No America Without It
Jawboning Social Media
notes
Read the Medium article here.
5 Things to Know About Regulating Internet Speech
- The Powder Keg – YouTube recently “demonetized” hundreds of controversial channels, after an on-going spat between conservative comedian Steven Crowder and liberal Vox writer Carlos Maza. The host of Louder with Crowder repeatedly mocked Maza’s flambuoyant personae (aka the “gay wonk”) and ethnicity, and Maza roused a Twitter mob to get YouTube to remove him altogether. YouTube’s kept the videos up, but took Crowder’s ad dollars — pleasing virtually nobody, as Reason’s Robby Soave pointed out.
- The Legal Issue - Some kinds of speech, such as incitements to violence, are clearly not protected by the 1st amendment, while “hate speech,” or offensive speech, is not clearly defined. Under Section 230 of the Decency in Communications Act (1996), online platforms like YouTube can set their own guidelines for acceptable speech but are continuing to come under scrutiny for alleged bias against conservatives.
- The Proposed Remedy – Trump is talking about antitrust to break up Big Tech monopolies, but most scholars think this is impractical. Republican Senator Josh Hawley just introduced a law to essentially revive the “Fairness Doctrine,” and stop biased censorship of conservatives. This Sunday, I’ll speak to Frank Buckley about his middle-ground idea for a governmental check on “woke” social media censorship.
- The Unintended Consequences – Elizabeth Nolan Brown points out that Hawley’s bill would likely make censorship against conservatives worse. The bill would require companies to reapply with the Federal Trade Commission every two years to prove that they are operating in a politically neutral manner. Ultimately, this would mean censoring vastly more political content, Brown notes.
- A Quote to Ponder :
“There’s always someone we’re laughing at, and that person is going to take offense. If it’s a conservative laughing at a liberal, even a liberal who seems to be asking for it, even someone who dishes it out but can’t take it, like the butt of Crowder’s laughter, that’s when the progressive social media censors step in.” - Frank Buckley, How to stop the 'woke' social media censors, NY Post, June 10, 2019
As for me, you can will always be able to find my videos at Minds.com. I say let YouTube censor.
Learn more, and listen to Frank try to “Change my Mind”.
Links
- The Absolutely Epic Guide For Learning To Use Minds | Minds
- Minds.com/BobZadek
- Minds.com/ottman
- @fbuckley
- How to stop the ‘woke’ social media censors NY POST
- Trump’s fight for campus justice is only beginning
- The Bubble: How Higher Education Abandoned its Mission and Became America’s Most Over-Rated Product — $3 Kindle edition on Amazon