A job for persuaders, not prosecutors.

In National Review, Kevin Williamson asks,

...A few questions: When you read a few weeks ago that a Cambodian-American candidate for public office was running ads that touched on the horrifying history of her native country, and that those ads were being suppressed by Facebook, did you even have to ask whether the candidate was a Republican? No, of course not. And as much as we conservatives might lament the fact, conspiracy nut Alex Jones is, broadly speaking, a creature of the Right. Is anybody surprised that he was the target of an obviously coordinated action by Apple, Facebook, and YouTube, while much more dangerous conspiracy nuts such as Louis Farrakhan are permitted to operate without interference? Of course not. If Louis Farrakhan is good enough for Barack Obama, you can bet he’s good enough for YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, Jew-hating weirdo though he is. There are some important differences, of course: Minister Farrakhan has been complicit in at least one political assassination, and Alex Jones, whatever his transgressions against truth and taste, has not.

Silicon Valley is hardly without blame here. It is full of Little Suppressors. And while the bosses sometimes talk a good game about addressing their epidemic bias problems, one of the problems with bias is that biases are usually invisible to the bias-holder. That’s going to be a long conversation — a lot of long conversations.

But it’s a job for persuaders, not prosecutors.

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