Trump Calls On Social Media Companies To Become Pre-Crime Agents

Trump Calls On Social Media Companies To Become Pre-Crime Agents

5 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190806/09291142728/trump-calls-social-media-companies-to-become-pre-crime-agents.shtml

Every time there are mass shootings in America, the public discourse disolves into a muck of tribal finger-pointing. We blame guns, video games, past Presidents, Congress, homosexuality, the decline of the nuclear family, mental illness, the internet, and on and on. Nothing gets done, no proposed solutions are adopted, and those proposed solutions gradually become all the more insane. The truth is more nuanced than can fit into a soundbite on some cable news program, but somehow the debates soaked in blood and grief never acknowledge this. If there is to be a sea change in the rate of incidents of mass violence in this country, this will have to change.

Or, if you're President Trump, you just tell the same social media companies you've regularly railed against for being biased to be your pre-crime agents instead.