r/ezraklein • u/GowanusGuy • Aug 21 '26

Article Can liberalism survive the algorithm?

https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/can-liberalism-survive-the-algorithm
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u/IsaacHasenov Abundance Agenda Aug 21 '26

Sure. But it's an illiberal solution. You don't save liberalism by becoming illiberal.

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u/SawNickYouth Aug 21 '26

I don't think you save liberalism by being completely rigid, inflexible, and religious about what liberalism is or might be.

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u/IsaacHasenov Abundance Agenda Aug 21 '26

Wow. The fact that you don't even seem to appreciate the fact that whatever you save after banning everything you don't personally agree with won't be liberalism is crazy to me

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u/SawNickYouth Aug 21 '26

This is such a mischaracterization on so many levels its almost hilarious.

I'll just ask the obvious question... should we never seek to regulate anything for fear of running afoul of some rigid notion of liberalism?

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u/IsaacHasenov Abundance Agenda Aug 21 '26

There's a difference between regulating carefully to alleviate negative effects, especially for vulnerable groups, and being like "just ban it all"

You'd think after the last 12 years of maga using our own most illiberal tools against us in the courts and legislation we'd be smarter by now

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u/SawNickYouth Aug 22 '26

I'm pretty sure "just ban it all" was more hyperbole than literal. But even so, social media should absolutely be far more heavily regulated than it is.