Eric Schiffer Battles Tucker Carlson over His Calls to Regulate Facebook: ‘Where Do You Draw the Line?’
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CARLSON: "There is mounting evidence, science has produced mounting evidence that some of the products and silicon valley produces hurt people, particularly children and there appears to be a direct connection between the time people spend using these products and the condition of their mental health. I'm wondering what silicon valley is doing about that. I'm confused."
SCHIFFER: "I think those are certainly valid concerns that some have raised in aspects of the community, but there's a whole other side of Facebook and I think that's just one. You can make many of these same arguments with respect to television, you can make them certainly with respect to music. We've heard this argument before in history. There's no question. The truth is, even a show like yours as captivating, interesting, it's designed to hold, it's designed to capture people and make them stick and it does and it does it well.
CARLSON: "My show on cable news has not totally reordered our society."
SCHIFFER: "Liberals don't think so."
CARLSON: "It's not a liberal/conservative thing. Here's the truth. When this technology came out 20 years ago and change the we live completely. It just seems irresponsible to me or perhaps I'm missing something."
SCHIFFER: "It's capitalism and I think the goal is in any kind of media and this is a media entity if you will, it's all about holding people, it's all about capturing people, whether it's television, its movies, it's music, and I think they have figured it out, but in the brain --
CARLSON: "I love how liberals are now defending unrestrained market capitalism because they're profiting, but how is that different than selling crack cocaine or heroin? The whole point is get people engaged. Why do you care with the effect is on them? There's not really an answer, is it?"
SCHIFFER: "I think it's certainly an adjusting debate. Where do you draw the line because you can make the argument that almost anything that holds people and captures people that may have any effect that way could be negative. No one's advocating for drugs, there's no question about that."
CARLSON: "They are saying we knew this was addictive, we knew it hurt people, but we did it anyway. We created this class of child billionaires who apparently knew they were hurting the population when they greeted the product. I don't understand why there is not a congressional hearing about this. If this was a drug, there would be."
SCHIFFER: "I understand, but what about movies, what about violent video games, where do you draw the line, tucker? I guess my point in all of this is when you have a platform like Facebook or television or music, et cetera, you have to also balance it against the social good. When you consider Facebook, that's allow democracy to thrive thrive. It took down regimes that were against America."
