Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

“It’s disgusting and cheap to compare social media to drugs. Social media is speech. When you compare it to drugs, you’re making an argument that speech is scary and dangerous…”

2024/03/15 09:43:39 GMT

Excellent thread by Shoshana Weissmann, click through for the entire thing.

Plus: I feel we should also combat comparing Social Media to physical harms, but that’s an entire book…

It's disgusting and cheap to compare social media to drugs. Social media is speech. When you compare it to drugs, you're making an argument that speech is scary and dangerous. Scalia rejected this cheap thought in the video game cases where he said if there was actually …
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair ? (@senatorshoshana) March 14, 2024

https://twitter.com/senatorshoshana/status/1768399067384574154

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“It’s disgusting and cheap to compare social media to drugs. Social media is speech. When you compare it to drugs, you’re making an argument that speech is scary and dangerous…”

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