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In some sense, the outrage mob over this reasonable statement is the contents of the Pandora's Box he opened coming back to bite him. Not that I think it's des

In some sense, the outrage mob over this reasonable statement is the contents of the Pandora's Box he opened coming back to bite him. Not that I think it's deserved. Just sadly ironic.

MBCook 8y ago
It’s deserved. If you’re going to let anything on your platform, people are going to post horrible hateful things. And when they do, other people will get justifiably mad about it. When you’re dumb enough to say that you think that’s a good thing, you’re going to get skewered in the press. Honestly, what could possibly come of saying you think it’s OK to deny the holocaust? Of course when you later so you miss spoke about that, no one’s really going to believe you. Either you meant it and thus you’re horrible person, or you didn’t mean it and you’re insanely naïve. Facebook‘s been around long enough and in enough scandals that you can’t claim naïveté anymore. If Facebook had a 100% anything goes policy then as much as people hated this the anti-holocaust stuff would be somewhat understandable. But when there are rules and limits on the platform but they don’t seem to limit anything incredibly horrible, only articles rebutting that stuff... you’ve certainly marked yourself for criticism. At times it’s hard to imagine a way Facebook could act that would get them in more trouble.
- Fellshard 8y ago
  I think he understands - and rightly so - that trying to control what can and can't be said on the platform means taking responsibility for everything that remains on the platform, now, in addition to it becoming a slippery slope situation: where do you draw the line? That said, yeah, they've been digging themselves that hole for a while now. I don't think he deserves it _for this particular statement_ in the context of how they've seemed to shift away from the 'curated content' perspective for now.
  - MBCook 8y ago
    I agree you have to draw a line, however they can’t seem to draw one and stick to it. I think they would just deserve strong criticism for this incident, but the reaction is certainly worse given everything that’s been happening for the last few years.

In some sense, the outrage mob over this reasonable statement is the contents of the Pandora's Box he opened coming back to bite him. Not that I think it's deserved. Just sadly ironic.

MBCook 8y ago

It’s deserved. If you’re going to let anything on your platform, people are going to post horrible hateful things. And when they do, other people will get justifiably mad about it. When you’re dumb enough to say that you think that’s a good thing, you’re going to get skewered in the press. Honestly, what could possibly come of saying you think it’s OK to deny the holocaust? Of course when you later so you miss spoke about that, no one’s really going to believe you. Either you meant it and thus you’re horrible person, or you didn’t mean it and you’re insanely naïve. Facebook‘s been around long enough and in enough scandals that you can’t claim naïveté anymore. If Facebook had a 100% anything goes policy then as much as people hated this the anti-holocaust stuff would be somewhat understandable. But when there are rules and limits on the platform but they don’t seem to limit anything incredibly horrible, only articles rebutting that stuff... you’ve certainly marked yourself for criticism. At times it’s hard to imagine a way Facebook could act that would get them in more trouble.

Fellshard 8y ago
I think he understands - and rightly so - that trying to control what can and can't be said on the platform means taking responsibility for everything that remains on the platform, now, in addition to it becoming a slippery slope situation: where do you draw the line? That said, yeah, they've been digging themselves that hole for a while now. I don't think he deserves it _for this particular statement_ in the context of how they've seemed to shift away from the 'curated content' perspective for now.
- MBCook 8y ago
  I agree you have to draw a line, however they can’t seem to draw one and stick to it. I think they would just deserve strong criticism for this incident, but the reaction is certainly worse given everything that’s been happening for the last few years.