Where’s the middle ground then? Letting these morons run amok without any checks on the vile sewage coming out of their mouths seems like a bad idea to me.
You can’t yell “Fire!” in a crowded theater. That’s the limit on free speech.
Whether anything Alex Jones has said is equivalent to that is up for debate. One could argue his conspiracy theories incite violence, but that same criticism has been applied to activists. I don’t know where the line is, but it’s the oft-referenced slippery slope.
Regarding possible regulation of social media:
The White House has drafted an executive order for President Donald Trump’s signature that would instruct federal antitrust and law enforcement agencies to open investigations into the business practices of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc. and other social media companies.
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The document instructs U.S. antitrust authorities to “thoroughly investigate whether any online platform has acted in violation of the antitrust laws.” It instructs other government agencies to recommend within a month after it’s signed actions that could potentially “protect competition among online platforms and address online platform bias.”
Sessions is holding a meeting with state AGs to discuss social media:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-11/sessions-is-said-to-be-open-to-probe-of-social-media-giants
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-13/sessions-agrees-to-include-democrats-in-meeting-on-social-media