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People definitely want to close FB for multitudes of reasons beyond being a platform for divisive speech.
by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
People definitely want to close FB for multitudes of reasons beyond being a platform for divisive speech.
- mc32 7y agoFB certainly is guilty of collecting user data and using it unscrupulously and gathering it unscrupulously. But they can enact laws rather than grandstand and make it out to be a threat to democracy. It’s a threat to the established parties yes, but I’m not yet sure it’s by itself a threat to democracy, The CA stuff was overblown and had very little impact. The bad thing behind the CA fiasco was sharing people's data the way they did (though that was neither new, nor hidden, that’s their stock in trade).
- SomeOldThrow 7y agoYes, I'd say the people who invest(ed) in Facebook are much bigger threats to democracy than the site itself is.