A healthy democracy needs to have places for democratic discussion. Not all places need to be for it -- that would be terrible. But some places.
Today, those places are mainly TV news/commentary, newspaper/magazine reporting and analysis, and Facebook+Twitter. Each of them have different strengths and weaknesses.
Eliminating any of them for political speech would be a huge loss. To expand beyond them (into your home and refrigerator), you'd have to make an argument that it served a purpose that wasn't already served by the three domains I already mentioned. Which I don't see an argument for.
You're posing a "slippery slope" argument here, but I don't think that applies.
Oh, I see. I'm not actually a Facebook user, so I didn't consider it to be a place for political discussion. I suppose that's the source of our differences.
Edit: Just to clarify, I used it many years ago, but it was really just for sharing photos with family and friends.
A healthy democracy needs to have places for democratic discussion. Not all places need to be for it -- that would be terrible. But some places.
Today, those places are mainly TV news/commentary, newspaper/magazine reporting and analysis, and Facebook+Twitter. Each of them have different strengths and weaknesses.
Eliminating any of them for political speech would be a huge loss. To expand beyond them (into your home and refrigerator), you'd have to make an argument that it served a purpose that wasn't already served by the three domains I already mentioned. Which I don't see an argument for.
You're posing a "slippery slope" argument here, but I don't think that applies.