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Over thirty people across the country have been fired, put on leave, investigated or faced calls to resign because of social media posts criticizing Charlie Kirk or expressing schadenfreude about the conservative influencer’s assassination earlier this week, according to an analysis by NPR.
this is a forum. it’s not social media. if this is social media then every website on the internet is, meaning any law passed on social media is without exception a law passed on the entirety of the internet.
Just to give you a semblance of how ridiculous of a definition that is (in the current day and age where we’re stating the effects of social media on people’s lives); imagine that you walked up to someone and asked them what their address was, and they answered “Earth”. It’s such a wide ranging answer that conveys absolutely nothing. And now imagine that laws started to be passed stating that “anyone that uses earth must submit to blah blah blah”. People would be up in arms.
Social media is not forums. It is not blogs. It is not comment sections. It is not video streaming sites.
The internet was made up of those things long before social media came around. Stop calling the entire internet social media.
I don’t care what the dictionary says, it’s a pointless definition if that’s the definition. That’s literally every website on the planet. It even includes websites like General Motors blog (that definition you posted comes from a 2010 article written by a business moron who lumped in Wikipedia and General Motors’ blog, in the actually published paper), so yes it’s an incredibly dumb definition. Social media does not mean anywhere you share information and connect through text. THAT’S THE INTERNET!