Excellent piece. However, I thought when I read the headline, you might discuss how social media sites might fall under a similar "fairness" doctrine.
I admit I have no clear-cut answer for any of it. I don't think private business owners should be forced to violate their religious beliefs, but I also believe people shouldn't be discriminated against in most areas. You make a valid distinction (one I have also made) in that there are many web designers and cake bakers that one could find others, but a mortgage lender, not so much. Perhaps that distinction should make the case -- something that involved legal partnerships and legal arrangements should be subject to anti-discrimination laws, but private business transactions should not.
Not sure where you live, but in my world this seems to be a half baked theory. There are more bank & mortgage businesses than businesses baking cakes. So there are fifteen banks to choose from, but only half a bakery.
I don't think we should hold social media websites to account for what gets posted on their site
In fact I think we could regulate it in such a way that we require news organizations who are posting on Facebook for example to be the moderators of those posts
If I write a letter to The New York Times or comment on a column or an article in The New York Times their moderators review it before they post it to The Times website
But numerous news outlets both with misinformation and actual information are posting links on social media and not moderating the responses they get posted in regards to those links but they should
Facebook could easily limit the reach of such mention misinformation by banning the ability of anybody posting information to not be able to put in a hyperlink
Excellent piece. However, I thought when I read the headline, you might discuss how social media sites might fall under a similar "fairness" doctrine.
I admit I have no clear-cut answer for any of it. I don't think private business owners should be forced to violate their religious beliefs, but I also believe people shouldn't be discriminated against in most areas. You make a valid distinction (one I have also made) in that there are many web designers and cake bakers that one could find others, but a mortgage lender, not so much. Perhaps that distinction should make the case -- something that involved legal partnerships and legal arrangements should be subject to anti-discrimination laws, but private business transactions should not.
Not sure where you live, but in my world this seems to be a half baked theory. There are more bank & mortgage businesses than businesses baking cakes. So there are fifteen banks to choose from, but only half a bakery.
I don't think we should hold social media websites to account for what gets posted on their site
In fact I think we could regulate it in such a way that we require news organizations who are posting on Facebook for example to be the moderators of those posts
If I write a letter to The New York Times or comment on a column or an article in The New York Times their moderators review it before they post it to The Times website
But numerous news outlets both with misinformation and actual information are posting links on social media and not moderating the responses they get posted in regards to those links but they should
Facebook could easily limit the reach of such mention misinformation by banning the ability of anybody posting information to not be able to put in a hyperlink