This is the end of free speech online – spiked
The internet has changed radically in the past decade or so. Where social-media giants once boasted about being the free speech wing of the free speech party , in recent years, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other platforms have become increasingly censorious, cracking down on dissenting views and offensive speech. Big Tech has relished this role as the unofficial arbiter of acceptable thought. But while the likes of Facebook may have severely wounded free speech online, it could be the UK government that deals the killer blow.
We talked about social media, misinformation and deplatforming yesterday during my AI seminar. All of my students seemed to have quite reasonable opinions, but then they are probably a self-selected bunch.