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Should We Regulate Social Media?

Sisyphus 55 | November 27, 2025



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  2. @wruxiz6104

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    While I agree it is a tragedy that lives were lost due to maniacal ideas and self riotousness', the idea of regulating speech is just foolish. People should be allowed to speak and believe what they want, they should be allowed to be themselves, good person or not. It's unethical to regulate people in such a fashion. Aside from the moral problems with this, there's also the major power imbalance between the average person and the regulators. Who decides what's ok and what's not? What's true and whats a conspiracy? Speech regulation will inevitably be abused and corrupted by people trying to silence one side or the other. The cons simply outweigh the pros.

  3. @BadgerOfTheSea

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    The greatest thing about free speech is it gives everyone a voice. The worst thing about free speech is it gives everyone a voice. The problem, that we see emphasized through social media, is that people think that because they CAN have an opinion means they HAVE to have an opinion. Similarly, people think that because they have free speech, everyone is obliged to listen to them. You have the right to say what you want, but you need to accept that everyone has the right to ignore you.

  5. @IdDidWhatHeDid

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    Great video!
    I believe that the idea of some type of regulation isn't a terrible one (of course, it has its disadvantages). As we continue to move forward and cope with new eras and the technological developments it brings, we'd also have to, at some point, raise the question of the big role social media plays, and it's echo-chambers.
    Are you truly being educated as you think you are if you're listening to the same discussions over and over again whilst refusing new ideals?
    Let alone the whole "opinion" thing, and why so many people rarely if ever change their minds about something. That deserves a whole other video on its own.

  6. @nyudui5952

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    The truth always arrives because it has in the first place. It may just take a long time. And also people are inherently empathetic they just get corrupted by their beliefs, and begin seeing others as opponents instead of human. We're all empathetic towards something

  9. @apasserby9183

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    For a video titled "Should We Regulate Social Media?" you didn't actually talk about regulating social media at all…. Maybe watch Jaron Lanier's thoughts on social media instead of trying to literally dismantle free speech…

  13. @ivanmarquez2218

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    This is exactly what MGS2 was all about. An AI that regulated the internet's flow of information, filtering so much raw "trash" from opinions and other noises to obtain the essence of a truth that everyone should see.

    However, it's a grim thought. To think that a bunch of 0 and 1 hold the universal handle on "objective" truth and facts.

  15. @MalMotorDedo

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    Is funny that the conclusion I see in the comments of videos like this are always, In other words, "I don't believe in a responsible work from the government", which is kinda not surprising.
    Where I live, the president preaches about being responsible and he has tweets from 3 years ago that let you know that he's a terrible person in a lot of ways (and he/his team didn't delete those tweets X'D).
    So, proper regulation of speech is not possible, the ppl with the power are not trustworthy ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  16. @theWinterWalker

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    I wonder how many COVID-19 deniers and antimaskers that become sick and hospitalized end up in ICU being treated by the VERY people they didn't trust in first place end up with million dollar hospital bills?

    What would the right say?
    I'm not paying their bills, they should have listened… 👌

  18. @douglassmithe9799

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    I thought this video was gonna be about regulating social media in general, as opposed to just regulating spaces for online political discourse. Like why is gambling regulated or outlawed when social media can be just as, if not more, addictive?

  19. @urphakeandgey6308

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    I see the regulation of speech to be a futile task. Someone somewhere will always say something distasteful, if only to spite those who seek to force his hand. Censorship only implies credence to those silenced.

    Please note that death threats, harassment, or falsely screaming "FIRE" in a crowded building does not count as speech.

  21. @vaasmontenegro3993

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    Really disappointed to see a academic advocates supression of thought. Nothing will stun intellectual development of the society than restricting lines of thought to whatever the dominant ideology deem acceptable.
    If your belief cannot stand Alex Jones, maybe those beliefs need refinement.

  22. @Don_C06

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    I have always wanted to do a "freemarket of ideas" type system. But then I realized that a free market of ideas is simple a fantasy. People don't naturally levitate towards the truth, they levitate towards facts that personally appeal to their world view. Good arguments don't mean anything if the opposition is to short minded and stubborn to look out of their own personal philosophy.

  24. @MilesSmiles396

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    "We should regulate speech and discussion. Trust the committee/bureau/enforcer, they'll be fair and all knowing!!"

    Powerful entities, the elite and the accredited individuals and institutions have been wrong so, so, so many times and responsible for so much awfulness and have much more than their due influence over society. They dominant ideology in society is not one reached via cold logic and reason, but by passion and moralistic impulses of victorious political groups. Giving technocrats power does not lead to better societies.

    If you care about democracy, (actual, genuine, democracy and not our vote for establishment party #12) you should oppose limits on speech and its platforms.

    No, conspiracy theories, "hate" speech, and Alex Jones should not be banned. I'm quite disappointed in this channel.

    P.S. Regarding Popper's Paradox of Tolerance, it is the one who is INTOLERANT OF SPEECH that must be forbidden; not kooky, wrong, mistaken, racist/sexist/ism, etc.

  25. @PentaSquares

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    even if a totalitarian world government were established I doubt it would last long.
    we all have our own opinions and I doubt everyone will just give in to peer pressure or whatever.
    Not to say everyone won't do it. I'm sure if it did happen, at least 90% of people would just give into it all.

    the remaining 10% or whatever would probably just start some political ideology of freedom or whatever, then start a revolution, get rid of the totalitarian system, be united for a few years, be divided by different political views, then we have small ideological conflict, and then another group of elitists or whatever are gonna decide to "fix the world" and cause mass chaos, then the oppression, revolution, etc. whatever.

    Teach history so we don't repeat it. I suppose that doesn't work very well at all. We need to make mistakes in order to learn from them. Every time we go to war and end a war we learn about what went wrong and we fix that. After a while, things will always get bad in some way, then we go to war, learn something, and keep fixing everything slowly.

    War is a good way to make the world better. Not that killing people is good or anything, but rather that we learn from war and build upon ourselves in order to improve.

    The way I see it, the world is a like a wave. It has ups and downs. all things soon pass. peace will soon pass into war, war will soon pass into peace. We do good to prevent war in the future, but that good has a bad aspect of itself which causes another conflict.

    a wave kind of like Yin-Yang. where good has bad, bad has good. too much danger leads to protection, but over protection leads to danger. It's not the protection or the danger itself that causes all this suffering, but rather the exaggeration of the protection or danger.

    Anxiety, for example, is good for you. When anxiety becomes "exaggerated" it becomes an issue. When anxiety becomes "underexaggerated" it becomes an issue.

    I think the world is basically in a constant state of equilibrium, and although it may seem like humans have disrupted the equilibrium, it actually seems that it corrected itself by being exaggerated on the opposite side of things.

    I don't think we should keep disrupting the equilibrium, just because it's equilibrium doesn't mean you're going to enjoy it.
    Although it is in a state of equilibrium that prevents us from just killing everything in existence, everything is more exaggerated now on both sides.

    though technically it is still a state of equilibrium, so it balanced out the suffering by being a bit better, but at the same time it's still slightly worse than ususual… maybe that doens't really matter.

    whatever.

    this is just what I'm thinking at the moment, my view could change in the future.

  32. @AaronAlegre

    November 27, 2025 at 1:49 am

    There's already regulation of speech in form of libel, slander, sedition, media censorship, and content rating systems. Does it work? Only if you can trust the jurisdiction and everyone has proper representation. Otherwise, it will all skew against the disenfranchised.

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