Yaron Brook, Brendan O'Neill & Kate Andrews: Should Government Regulate Facebook
Spiked Magazine editor Brendan O'Neill joins Yaron Brook to discuss the importance of Free speech and whether Government should Regulate Facebook? Moderated by Kate Andrews from the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA). This panel was recorded on November 12, 2018 in London. In recent years, social media have become the focus of debates about free speech, and the issue is rapidly coming to a head. The internet promised to bring people closer together and to empower individuals by bypassing publishers and broadcasters who had acted as gatekeepers between speakers and mass audiences. It has enabled new voices to be heard and sparked the formation of new communities and new movements. But some of these communities are rife with hatred and bullying, and there are worries that social media is coarsening our political discourse. Many people attribute these ills to too-permissive policies of the social media companies, but others argue that current policies are too restrictive. Many from both camps think that these
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