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"Is that the future you want for your children? I would like a future that protects everyone's speech, not just a specific political group. I want my children

"Is that the future you want for your children? I would like a future that protects everyone's speech, not just a specific political group. I want my children to be able to express their opinions, without the fear of physical attacks. Many conservative bloggers have been banned from Facebook, not for harassment or hate speech, but for merely stating an opinion that does not agree with the current narrative. I've seen some of the most abusive and vile comments after the election not about minorities, but about Trump supporters. When will Facebook start banning these people for hate speech? Will it ever happen? I thought after the election that we really could start fixing our divided nation, but the truth is now here: nobody really wants to fix the divide, they want the other side buried and silenced. "It's a future where bald-faced lies get more shares than evidence-based argument. It's a future where propaganda trumps reason." This has been happening since Twitter started. I stopped looking at all social media because of this. Wikileaks and the hacked DNC emails showed us that the mainstream media regularly used its power to spread anti-trump propaganda and nearly destroyed him like they did Bernie Sanders.

lsiebert 10y ago
What you see is what your friends show you. Facebook is an echo chamber in an increasingly polarized society. From what I can tell, facebook is occasionally awful to everyone, about equally. It takes down posts it shouldn't, because it's not trained ethics experts deciding, it's low paid contractors/workers trying to follow guidelines for removing content and banning people in an messy world. It's just that people only hear about their friends issues with the site, because their friends are like them in outlook, and because the algorithms behind facebook that surface posts tend to prefer posts that are like other posts you clicked on. Now, it's my understanding that a fair bit of fake news was created by people looking for ad word revenue on both sides. I think FB deserves critique for allowing false news stories to spread, and it should be non partisan, because regardless of who won the election, we can all agree that false stories about the candidates didn't benefit anyone except the people getting that ad revenue, and certainly not the voting public.

lsiebert 10y ago

What you see is what your friends show you. Facebook is an echo chamber in an increasingly polarized society. From what I can tell, facebook is occasionally awful to everyone, about equally. It takes down posts it shouldn't, because it's not trained ethics experts deciding, it's low paid contractors/workers trying to follow guidelines for removing content and banning people in an messy world. It's just that people only hear about their friends issues with the site, because their friends are like them in outlook, and because the algorithms behind facebook that surface posts tend to prefer posts that are like other posts you clicked on. Now, it's my understanding that a fair bit of fake news was created by people looking for ad word revenue on both sides. I think FB deserves critique for allowing false news stories to spread, and it should be non partisan, because regardless of who won the election, we can all agree that false stories about the candidates didn't benefit anyone except the people getting that ad revenue, and certainly not the voting public.