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Why not?

• lolsal 8y ago
  I believe in free speech whether or not I believe with what is being spoken.
  • mullingitover 8y ago
    Would you post other people's hate speech on your own web site? By your reasoning, if you don't, you're blocking free speech. Facebook is not the government and has no obligation to publish anyone's hate speech, holocaust denialism, or other harmful conspiracy theory nonsense.
    • lolsal 8y ago
      > Would you post other people's hate speech on your own web site? No, but if I was running a social-oriented platform, they could post it themselves. > By your reasoning, if you don't, you're blocking free speech. Not really, since I'm not a government. The user doesn't have a right to free speech on my platform, so I'm not denying them a right. > Facebook is not the government and has no obligation to publish anyone's hate speech, holocaust denialism, or other harmful conspiracy theory nonsense. Absolutely agree, that's why I think it's great that Zuckerberg is choosing to respect free speech, even though he doesn't have to.
      • mullingitover 8y ago
        > Absolutely agree, that's why I think it's great that Zuckerberg is choosing to respect free speech, even though he doesn't have to. He's not just respecting it, by curating content on the platform he's personally endorsing the stuff that stays up. If FB was an uncensored platform it'd be another story, but it's not.
        • lolsal 8y ago
          > He's not just respecting it, by curating content on the platform he's personally endorsing the stuff that stays up. I have a suspicion that policing a social network with billions of users and keeping on top of trolls, bots and spam make it a little more complicated than 'if it stays up he personally endorses it'. This is a false dichotomy, there is a middle ground.
          • mullingitover 8y ago
            You ever notice that Facebook isn't known for hosting child pornography? It's because they police their platform effectively, and things that they don't want on their platform are quickly removed. They are very effective at policing their platform, full stop. The stuff that's on there is the stuff they've decided they want to host and share with the world, including holocaust denialism.
            • adamrezich 8y ago
              Yes because in the United States, child pornography is illegal, and Holocaust denial isn't.
              • mullingitover 8y ago
                You're notably not fighting my point that Facebook has total control over their platform. Thus it follows that Facebook implicitly endorses Holocaust denialism. If they didn't, they could remove it.
                • lolsal 8y ago
                  > You're notably not fighting my point that Facebook has total control over their platform. I don't think anyone is. It's their platform, they can do whatever they want with it. Facebook access is not an unalienable human right. > Thus it follows that Facebook implicitly endorses Holocaust denialism. If they didn't, they could remove it. They can allow something on their platform without endorsing it. Permitting something and endorsing it are absolutely not synonymous.
• 8637973911 8y ago
  Who watches the watchmen?
• gsich 8y ago
  It's tedious to remove.