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The problem is not what I can and cannot distinguish. The problem is that the Big Tech companies want to make that decision for me. I despise Alex Jones and don

• mcphage 8y ago
  > I want to make that decision by myself and not trust Facebook to take it for me And what’s stopping you from doing that? See, really what you want isn’t Facebook from making the decision for you, since they can’t. Alex Jones has his own show, and FB has no interest or ability in changing that. What you want is to make that decision for Facebook, and not let Facebook make it for themselves.
  • smsm42 8y ago
    > And what’s stopping you from doing that? If Big Tech colludes to deplatform Jones, then it's no longer my decision. > What you want is to make that decision for Facebook, and not let Facebook make it for themselves. I can't make decision for Facebook, I don't have that power. I can't force Facebook to do anything. Facebook, on the other hand, has the power to deplatform Jones and force me to not be able to see his content via Facebook, discuss his content with my Facebook contacts, force me off the platform for supporting Jones, etc. etc. Of course, they don't have influence beyond facebook platform, but in collusion with Google, Twitter, DNS providers, certificate providers, cloud service providers, etc. (virtually all those have been participating in deplatforming before) - they wield immense powers, so "but you can build your own Internet, nobody prevents you from doing that" is not really a good suggestion. Even then, that's exactly what the subjects of the article is doing - and they are being mocked for it, too.