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Facebook is about looking at hot girls from your college, well, that's how it started out. It's a social network where you and your data are the product. It's n
by TomK32 8y ago
Facebook is about looking at hot girls from your college, well, that's how it started out. It's a social network where you and your data are the product. It's not about free press.
To prove the point, in Myanmar the social network facebook has helped to spread hat speech that led to riots and violence between Buddhist and Moslims. https://www.wired.com/story/how-facebooks-rise-fueled-chaos-and-confusion-in-myanmar/ https://www.wired.com/story/how-facebooks-rise-fueled-chaos-...
If you want free press, change the government, whether it's Azerbaijan or Malta, a better government is necessary.
- alismayilov 8y agoIf we act based on this logic, then we should not use internet today, because it started as a military project. Well the telephone was created as a tool to talk each other not to browse on the internet. We can add many examples that initial usage changed significantly.
- TomK32 8y agofirst class trolling.
- lagadu 8y agoJust because it played a part in those events doesn't mean that it's not a tool for free press. One could argue that the fact that that speech wasn't able to be passed through traditional media is a point in favor of free speech, even if it resulted in violence.