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Comment in the article gets it pretty spot on. "Please learn the definition of a word before using it. Something isn’t hypocrisy if it takes time to fix due to

• ivraatiems 10y ago
  > hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense. Zuckerberg: "We do not want to be arbiters of truth ourselves..." Zuckerberg (paraphrasing): "We'll penalize sites we deem to contain inaccurate information." To be clear, I think the latter stance is appropriate and reasonable in this case. It's also Facebook's right to police content on its system as it wishes. However, I think that in this and many cases, Zuckerberg is being somewhat disingenuous. This statement in particular is not a huge example, and the article itself is crying wolf somewhat, but it's a mistake to assume good faith from Facebook at this point.
  • greendragon 10y ago
    Zuck 3 (paraphrasing): "We're building tools to help states censor things they don't like, independent of the truth of those things." Consistent with 1, not really with 2. Agree that 2's not a huge deal in the grand scheme of issues with Facebook but yeah, best not to assume good faith lightly.