The rising clamour for a clampdown on social media owing to the hate speech issue is self-defeating. #socialmedia 1/6

You cannot have arbit babus or algorithms police speech. Hate speech, as disgusting as it is, is free speech as long as it isn't a direct call to violence. #SocialMedia 2/6

Twitter, Facebook deplatforming individuals because a group or the government doesn't like one or the other kind of content is deeply problematic and anti-free speech in the end #socialmedia 3/6

What one should insist is that these platforms do not directly profit from hate. That is no entity should be allowed to advertise/promote hateful content. And, possibly, verification of users, maybe though that also is problematic. 4/6

If you don't like some kind of content, ignore it. Block those you don't like to see. These powers must remain in the user's hands. No authority, group or powerful individual should cancel an individual. 5/6

There are laws in many countries to tackle hate speech and the cases are decided in the court of law. Not in a boardroom of bots or babus. Demanding regulation and speech policing is a slippery slope. 6/6