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Don't they own all that content according to their TOS? So what exactly is being censored when the content is owned by the same company that is choosing whether
by dkarapetyan 10y ago
Don't they own all that content according to their TOS? So what exactly is being censored when the content is owned by the same company that is choosing whether to show or not show certain content?
Edit: I stand corrected. They don't own the content. They can just do whatever they want with it.
Muddied thinking when it comes to these things doesn't help anyone. Facebook is not a champion of democracy or human rights. They're a business. No one should expect their core value system to be aligned with anything more than making more money and we should use the proper words. When they virtually own the content by asking you to allow them to do what they want with it we shouldn't call it censorship when it is suppressed. It's not like facebook went to the library and burned all the books that said bad things about China. It's more like the book was never put on a shelf to be accessible to begin with.
- detaro 10y ago> Don't they own all that content according to their TOS? No they don't. They have extensive usage rights to it, but they don't own it.