Because they can. We need strong media regulation, including social media, which I think should probably be…

Because they can. We need strong media regulation, including social media, which I think should probably be shut down. Libertarians use ‘free speech’ to pretend continuous propaganda doesn’t damage societies. They know it does, it’s why they pay big money for it. /1 https://t.co/DyxFidhd3Q

‘Fact-checking’ is also nonsense. It removes the ‘social’ from social media, pretending it’s just an information resource. It’s a platform where social groups mobilise. Fact-checking barely scratches that mobilisation. /2

The genius of the libertarians is to make arguments like this look like ‘he’s an authoritarian fascist Chinese sympathiser’, blah blah blah. Media has always been regulated, because knowledge and opinion can kill. We’re trapped in idiot libertarian frames. 3/3