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Perhaps only if commenters glorified it? I'm sure you can find people to do that on FB or anywhere else, and it may take time to moderate such commentary. But
by cryptonector 7y ago
Perhaps only if commenters glorified it? I'm sure you can find people to do that on FB or anywhere else, and it may take time to moderate such commentary. But no one would deplatform FB or Twitter -- they're too big. This approach means we have a powerful dynamic in place to limit the reach of any social media that isn't already "too big to deplatform".
- yhamv 7y agoIn fact Facebook said they didn't remove the nz shooter livestream because nobody bothered to report it until very late
- dangxiaopin 7y agoI would argue that the actual graphic livestream of a real mass murder is a much much more toxic and dangerous material than any theoretical manifesto. It's not even in the same league. But Facebook is too big to be dropped as a customer!
- ElCapitanMarkla 7y agoIs Facebook a customer? I thought they had their own network?
- yhamv 7y agoPretty sure they are customers of several CDNs.
- cryptonector 7y agoMaybe not, but others could refuse to peer with them.
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- fgdaniels 7y agoPlease, as if Facebook would be taken down when a few pubescent mongoloids "glorified violence". Glorification is a matter of free speech, because it is an expression of opinion. That you find it distasteful is fine, using that as a weapon is not. Either way, Facebook won't be held accountable because it's funded by large investment funds, and HN won't complain because they're in bed together. The "too big" argument is not a moral argument, that just says "we have money invested in it". If that's acceptable to you you have no morality.
- michannne 7y ago>they're too big And therein lies the problem. This sort of behavior is tolerated in Facebook and Twitter simply because they are "large" by some random metric. If FB or Twitter decides one day to mass censor a certain type of content, it somehow isn't a big deal because they are "large"