#164 - Should Social Media Companies Honor the First Amendment?

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🗓️ 26 June 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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MOTION: Constitutional Free Speech Principles Can Save Social Media Companies from Themselves President Trump posted similar content on Facebook and Twitter. Twitter flagged it. Facebook did not. Both have come under fire for those decisions. Just how should social media companies police user content? Revisit our debate on social media content moderation policies and whether the U.S. Constitution should be the guiding light in a new era of political speech. FOR THE MOTION: David French - Senior Writer, National Review Corynne McSherry - Legal Director, Electronic Frontier Foundation AGAINST THE MOTION: Nathaniel Persily - Professor, Stanford Law Marietje Schaake - International Policy Director, Stanford's Cyber Policy Center & Fmr. Member, European Parliament We're funded by our listeners. To support our debates, donate online at iq2us.org/support A message from our sponsor: Get an extra 3 months Free on a one year package. Expressvpn.com/debate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.2	Hi everybody, I'm John Don Van, host and moderator of Intelligent Squared U.S. debates.
1:08.9	And in this episode, we're going to be revisiting a debate on a topic that's been in your headlines
1:14.6	quite a bit recently.
1:15.6	We're going to be looking at how social media platforms should be deciding what content
1:22.2	you can or cannot post online.
1:25.0	We've seen Twitter and Facebook taking decidedly different approaches to this question.
1:30.5	Twitter recently flagged a tweet from President Trump where he said that mail-in ballots would
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