>"I believe that Facebook now understands the political difficulties the news feed creates, but if Facebook were truly a dictatorship, they wouldn't be spreadin

>"I believe that Facebook now understands the political difficulties the news feed creates, but if Facebook were truly a dictatorship, they wouldn't be spreading multiple oposing propaganda, would they?" Of course they would. They claim to be simply a "platform" for "diverse" opinions. Yet, at the first sign of someone being offended against something that's not popular, they shut it down. Even if they do it to the left and the right, what they're then essentially doing is forcing everyone into this average middle area where no one can say anything wildly-diverging from the mainstream narrative. But, from my point of view, the "mainstream" is currently rampantly left-leaning. So any "in your face" right-leaning points of view are very easily deemed to be in contradiction of some sort of "community standards", and are promptly shut down. I follow pages that have to regularly make numbered "back-up copy" Facebook groups/pages so that they can contact their followers after Facebook shuts them down, which is inevitable. It really is all or nothing when it comes to free-speech. People self-censor and avoid the things that naturally make them uncomfortable. But if you shift the responsibility for that to some centralized entity, you're going to have problems that alienates many.