Message to Trump: Your Freedom of Speech Rights End at the Doorsteps of Social Media
Trump will not win his class action suit against Twitter, Facebook, and Google
Social Media is one of the 21st Century's greatest inventions. It’s also our biggest pain in the ass.
Providing myriad platforms where grumpy and irrational humans can unload their deepest fears, petty annoyances, angriest tirades, and most poorly thought-out arguments was never a wonderful idea. That it also provided a platform for underserved voices and a catalyst for ideas and movements that otherwise might have died a quiet death in the fertile, yet lonely mind of an activist is a happy accident.
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, and YouTube’s Steve Chen (and Chard Hurley and Jawed Karim) didn't launch their platforms with the foresight of what any of them would become. That’s why it’s been such a tortured road to rein them in, add rules, and stamp out bad actors. To this day, none of them (including newer owners and leaders) have done enough to clean up their platforms and protect those who just want to tweet about The Bachelor.
That Former President Donald Trump was allowed for years to flout the social rules of kindness, truth, care, and respect, right into and through his…
