Comment by account42
4 days ago
Social media platforms shouldn't play internet police in the first place. We need to preserve our ability to communicate via impartial carries. I don't want the mailman to decide what letters I can send. I do not want the telephone company to decide what calls I can make. I don't want online replacements of them to make any such decisions either.
The problem isn't links to scam sites posted on X/whatever, the problem is the scam. That is something for the actual police, government agencies and ultimately legislators to handle. Go after the actual scammers. Go after countries harboring them. Don't sacrifice our freedoms for an "easy" out instead of doing real law enforcement.
You're framing this as an XY problem, but it isn't really an XY problem.
In XY problems the problem solver has the ability to solve the root problem instead of the presented one.
However, X has zero ability to go into the jungles of Myanmar and fight off the armed militias which are paid to protect the compounds of literally thousands of scammers.
What you are arguing for is corporate vigilantism. Not having the ability or authority to do things properly does not entitle you do enact your own vision of justice, and it definitely does not protect you from criticism when your "solution" ends up having negative consequences for innocent people.
X can't stop the scammers, they can only block them or ignore them.
99% of the public would prefer they block them than overlook them, and you're out of touch if you think otherwise.