Name: Should Social Media Be Regulated?
Uploaded: 2021-05-15T03:15:49.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Should Social Media Be Regulated?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-15. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Should Social Media Be Regulated?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-15. Transcript available.

Justice Clarence Thomas, and I didn't even know his first name was Justice, but
that's pretty dope.
Justice Clarence Thomas said on Monday that Congress should suggest whether
laws should be updated to regulate social media platforms.
He claimed social media platforms have come to have unbridled control over
unprecedented amounts of speech.
Suggested the platform should be used as common carriers such as trains and
telephone companies, both having large amounts of government regulations.
You know, I think about this a lot because it does seem to me that what used to
be people just talking now, the place where you talk is now social media.
That has become the communication environment.
And I guess people could debate and say, well, no, you could just talk to your
neighbors or talk to some.
But you can, but that's not really what goes on anymore.
You know, most talking or communicating is done now online, whereas it used to
be you had to go and see something live.
There's now so much more accessibility to communication online.
Most accessibility to communication is online.
I guess I feel like people should be able to say whatever they want, because it's
almost like the companies have become like the microphone.
So everybody has a microphone now and the companies have owned the microphone.
Where they can't own your actual voice, but they own the thing your voice goes
through to reach others.
You know, that's spigot.
And.
And yeah, I feel like it should be regulated somehow.
You hate to have the government involved, but at the same time, because you
want like free speech.
You want to have the government involved, but at the same time, you want like
free speech, but if the way we speak is now goes through a filter.
And that filter has judgment or jurisdiction over what is OK to say.
Then.
That seems very dangerous.
Because now speech doesn't feel free.
It feels very specific.
Like you're allowed to say things, but not these things.
And I'd love to know what some of you guys think on that.
You know, if you can hit the hotline nine, eight, five, six, six, four, nine,
five, zero, three.
Yeah.
You know, I just.
Because I feel like a lot of things.
Yeah.
They're just not allowed to be shared and not allowed to be said online.
Things get labeled.
Things get labeled and then taken down.
So that just feels alarming.
At least let people decide what they want to hear or believe.
But everyone should have the ability to share.
I feel like.
I feel like.
And I'm open to.
To hear different people's thoughts on that.
Because maybe also it's just our responsibility.
To be like, oh, well, this platform isn't.
Doesn't allow everything to be shared.
And I think most people know that.
But.
I don't know.
Just a lot there, man.
There's a lot in that little cauldron.
So if you want to stir that thing, hit the hotline.
Nine, eight, five, six, six, four, nine, five, zero, three.
Hope you enjoyed that video.
And you can watch another.
And you can watch this one.
You can watch this one.
Different options.
Different choices.
Some guy just brings you one option.
Not this guy.
Two options.
Watch one.
This one or this one.
One.