• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    The challenging part is a lot of it is indirect. General incitement to violence or misinformation is difficult to tie back to directly causing harm.

    Freedom of speech was simpler before internet when you were likely singled out as a kook and ignored. Now with the internet you have a much bigger audience as well as other kooks where you can build on each other. Your reach is farther, you can more easily appear to have common opinion, you can do more harm, and yet are more distanced from the harm you do.

    I have no idea what to do differently but we’ve seen free speech in an online world without any accountability has been able to do a lot of harm.