Hines Harmon0:00 What's up, y'all?0:01 As someone who uses social media a lot, I want to talk about the censorship that's happening in Europe on social media.0:06 Uh for years, Europe has had laws about spreading inf misinformation and hate speech on social media, but lately it's turned into censorship.0:15 For example, many in Europe are not pro-immigration, and sometimes their comments on it can be hateful.0:22 However, some of them are just spreading their views and how they don't want too many immigrants in their country.0:27 However, people have been getting arrested for posting stuff like this, leading to censorship.0:33 I believe in free speech as you cannot criticize a country without being truthful.0:38 And if you have to worry about what you can say and what you can't say, and if you'll be arrested for saying it, that is not free speech at all.0:44 No matter if it stops hate speech or if it stops misinformation.0:49 Because once they can stop that, they can kind of, you know, use that as an excuse to stop other stuff.0:54 So while the law says you can get arrested for misinformation and hate speech, it's slowly being blanketed towards stopping the spread of information online.1:04 As they can say, this is hate speech, you know, you don't want immigrants, you hate immigrants.1:08 That's hate speech because you don't want immigrants, that means you hate them, which is not true.1:12 And they can censor your posts and arrest you for your views.1:16 So I think no matter what side you stand on politically, you should be able to express your views and you should be able to express them freely, because if you can't, that is censorship, and if this happens in America, that will breach our First Amendment right to free speech.
Wesley Joyce0:00 Heinz, you uh I didn't honestly know the extent um to which Europe was censoring some of their people, but something that's made me think of um that I wanted to mention is this kinda reminds me of the global shift to WhatsApp.0:13 I know it's a lot more common in popular cultures.0:16 Um I know a lot of Spanish uh speaking students and you know people from Latin America and Spain, they all use WhatsApp to communicate with their people and it's to avoid all the data rates and the encryption that WhatsApp gives you and to bypass you know all the regulations.0:33 And it really is an interesting gray area because um America's having a weird time with censorship too, and um our algorithms are so politically charged and aggravated.0:45 Um it's it's kind of understandable why they want to keep checks on it, but it's also frustrating.0:51 I completely disagree with it.0:52 But there's some horrible stuff on the internet.0:55 Um but I do think the same way um finance is lean moving towards crypto.1:00 It's not, you know, all going there, but a lot of people um trust in it and trust the the freedom of it.1:06 And I think we'll only s continue to see more apps like WhatsApp and um social media maybe move to some of these encrypted um free free to use services and also I think it's interesting, I forget what the circumstances of the WhatsApp founders' arrests were in Paris, but I know he was arrested there and you know I've got to assume it's in line with um the same reason that they're censoring their people, it's the same reason they'd arrested him in Paris.1:34 But definitely very interesting times across the global media landscape now.
Thomas Freer0:00 I completely agree, Heinz.0:02 And while I do think uh stopping hate speech is important, the hardest thing there is gonna be drawing the line because, like you said, okay, is it hate speech towards certain groups or certain races?0:15 Like, yes, that's horrible, but is it just someone talking out against immigration policy in their country and then now they get arrested for that?0:25 Like, I think that's absurd.0:26 So finding where to draw the line is the hardest part of this whole debate.0:31 And I think if this same issue starts happening in the US, it it is to some degree, but um, it doesn't seem like it's as bad as Europe yet.0:40 I think there are gonna be serious protests and backlash in the United States, uh, because we we all agree it's very important to keep our keep our right to free speech.0:52 Um so yeah, I hope it doesn't get to that point here, but if it does, I assume there'll be there'll be lots of backlash.
Carl Dagher0:00 Yeah, Heinz, I I agree about um people should be able to voice their opinions and the fact that people are getting arrested for stuff they say is I think crossing the line of free speech.0:12 It is Europe, however, they don't they aren't those countries aren't built on the basis of free speech like the United States is so I can see why they might feel like they have the power to do that.0:23 However, at the end of the day, um people should be able to voice their opinions.0:29 I mean, another social media is just another method of of communication.0:33 It's like talking, it's like protesting.0:35 But I think social media should be regulated to an extent.0:39 I I mean there's children on social media, a lot of children.0:42 Um I I think people should be able to speak their mind, but certain things cross the line, and I don't necessarily think it's censorship if you're not getting them in trouble with the law.0:52 You're maybe, hey, delete this post or give 'em a warning.0:55 Like to an extent we gotta regulate what people say, because if we start spreading hate or misinformation constantly, then no one's gonna know what to think.1:04 And and people rely on social media a great deal for their information.1:08 So I think it should be a system that's regulated.1:10 However, taking legal action is completely ridiculous.1:13 And um at the end of the day, people should be voice able to voice their opinions.
Om Patel0:00 What's up, Hans?0:01 Yeah, I I really like the fact that you're bringing attention to this issue.0:05 I totally agree with what you're saying.0:07 How nowadays it's almost like you say one wrong thing and there it is, you're canceled.0:11 And people love to throw that word around, you're canceled, and it's honestly it's really sad to see that people can't express their own views and opinions without people saying, no, you're wrong, you're a bad person, this and this, whatever it may be, you know, just because of the fact that their ideals and their morals and their thoughts don't align with what they're saying.0:28 You know, it just says that these people who like to cancel and like to give backlash to others, just because their others' thoughts do not align with their thoughts, they think no, you can't say that.0:40 And that's totally that's totally wrong.0:43 Um, it's not a one-way street.0:44 People should be able to express their views and their opinions just as those people who claim to be on the right side of things do.0:51 So it's definitely something that we need to look into and you know be a lot more diligent about just bringing awareness to.0:57 I don't know how we can, you know, make these changes on social media specifically, but I know the first step to solving these issues and addressing them is just simply by bringing awareness, like you're doing here.1:08 And I I totally agree with you.1:10 I think that do there is some change that needs to be made.1:14 Um best way to do it and start by doing it is just by bringing an awareness.