And what about social media? --- Vladimir, I greatly appreciate you playing Devil's advocate here. My personal belief lies in freedom of speech and the upholding of human rights, but I would be lying if I told you I don't think about the other side often. One of the arguments often used to justify freedom of speech as a categorical imperative for all nations is that it creates a "market of ideas" where innovation flourishes, and development follows. Under this notion, a nation that favours censorship indirectly goes against the development of its people. However, we can only look at the large scale information disorders we saw in the last few years, or Trump's use of social media, the genocide in Myanmar, Facebook being responsible for this and that and not being willing to change... I think this scenario is terrible because it attacks some of the very justifications we have for freedom of speech online.

Source author: Gustavo Paiva gdp.direito@gmail.com