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I don't know man. Anyone can go out and shout random things to people on the street. Anyone can make a website and put made up stuff there or maybe a blog, or a
by bluecalm 10y ago
I don't know man. Anyone can go out and shout random things to people on the street. Anyone can make a website and put made up stuff there or maybe a blog, or a a micro-blog, maybe Twitter account. It seems Facebook is organized around people and their "walls" where they can put w/e they please. If people want to follow such person and share their content it's really on those people not the platform provider.
- eli_gottlieb 10y ago>If people want to follow such person and share their content it's really on those people not the platform provider. The operative problem here is that Facebook has a monopoly or near-monopoly on being the platform. Monopolies come with responsibilities.
- feketegy 10y agoFacebook is not just a platform provider in this case, because it has algorithms which decides what content will show up on users' news feed, therefore it's filtering content (even though it's a script). By this it could be said that the algorithm acts as an editor over content and in Germany this kind of filtering/moderation/censoring has laws and responsibilities.