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They don't have to be broken up, they need to stop being morally bankrupt. Nothing about Facebook's size dictates that they needed to: - Allow their platform
by nakedrobot2 8y ago
They don't have to be broken up, they need to stop being morally bankrupt.
Nothing about Facebook's size dictates that they needed to:
- Allow their platform to be abused by misinformation campaigns, because it pays well (thereby allowing Trump to win)
- Allow hate groups to flourish
- Allow anti-vax groups to grow and flourish
- Allow nutty conspiracy groups to flourish
- Help dictatorships with their genocide
It's simply because they are morally bankrupt by design and by culture.
- drawnablank 8y agoI don't think that enforcing the arbitrary restriction of views and opinions is the correct path to the morality you accuse them of being without. Once upon a time, Copernicus and Galileo would have been viewed as "nutty conspiracy" theorists, the latter of whom the church tried combat, purely for having different views. 'First they came' and all that...