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> They do not coerce anyone by exercising that power, though. I think you should elaborate on your definition of coercion here and what does and does not lie w
by vanderZwan 9y ago
> They do not coerce anyone by exercising that power, though.
I think you should elaborate on your definition of coercion here and what does and does not lie within its boundaries.
- pitaj 9y agoCoercion is the initialization of the use of force or fraud against another person or their property. Facebook exercising their power over their own platform is not coercion. People do not own their Facebook pages.
- throwaway2048 9y agothis is untrue in both a moral and legal sense. People absolutely own content they post to facebook.
- txru 9y agoNo, it has shades of truth and untruth. Absolutism isn't a great look on you. You own the content, in the meaning of the sense that you can prevent the public at large from seeing it. You don't own the content, in that you never have physical control over deletion, whether or not facebook employees see the data, or whether or not facebook licenses the use of your data for profitability purposes. All of those strongly detract from any strong concept of ownership.