[mcphilip]

No provider wants the cesspool to be pinned on them. I get that emotionally, but this is nuts. Obviously they have the right to make these moves, but god knows what happens when the new administration starts reflecting on the role played by Big Tech in this mess. Washing hands long after infection, so to speak.

What happens when congress uses these moves as evidence that Big Tech acknowledges the need to take responsibility for harmful content and then expects the same moves made for much smaller stakes?

[lostcolony]

Do you think that by NOT responding to such violence, a Democratic congress wouldn't say "regulation is needed, since Big Tech is dropping the ball"?

Which is more likely, congress deciding regulation is needed when Big Tech acts proactively to take care of the worst of it, or congress deciding regulation is needed when they don't do anything?

[panarky]

This is the dictionary definition of the slippery slope logical fallacy.

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

The more I study human history, the more I am convinced that the slippery slope is not a logical fallacy.

There are principles and once those get principles get trampled in the name of expediency, it becomes easier for the next person the trample them further.

[adolph]

There’s no truer fallacy than slippery slope cause however far you slide, there’s always further if you don’t look up.

[mcphilip]

Absolutely, but funny how often the fallacy plays out time and time again.

[015UUZn8aEvW]

In three years, the slippery slope has gone from deplatforming a tiny handful of online Nazis to deplatforming the President and an app with 10 million users.