Free Speech and Chosen Speech

 

The ultimate answer for the current social media controversy about free speech vs. content moderation/censorship is: custom filtration. Let each individual account-holder choose the material and posts he wishes to see. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, and many others need to abandon their current mindless and amoral “one-size-fits-all” content-monitoring policy. Instead, they should embrace customization and individual-tailoring.

Some social media group-members embrace right-wing religious conservatism, and tend to want to see many posts on that, along with few or no posts reflecting left-wing collectivist progressivism. Some group-members are the exact opposite. And some are moderates or free-thinkers which want to see a variety of intellectual content. Still others have a personal philosophy or interest which reflects socialism, Islam, Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, Scientology, Existentialism, atheism, hedonism, classical liberalism, libertarianism, Objectivism, and more. This wide variety of human types almost always prefer to view certain types of social media content ahead of others. Their needs and desires should be accommodated.

The best solution to the current content-moderation dilemma is probably for the various social media platforms to make certain parts of their source code freely available to software designers so that they can cleverly and deftly customize the different sites. This way the social media platforms will provide the best user experience to almost all of their diverse collection of participants.

There shouldn’t be “one-size-fits-all” content censorship. Nor should there be content anarchy. Let the customer decide. Let the many different clients of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter/X, Instagram, TokTok, and others finally be free of Big Tech’s Big Brother-like control. Let each person individually customize their social media and select which flavor of these Websites they prefer.