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free speech is only for popular, mainstream speech? I don’t really care what’s cost effective for Facebook’s lawyers; we don’t have to care about that, so we s
by msbarnett 7y ago
free speech is only for popular, mainstream speech?
I don’t really care what’s cost effective for Facebook’s lawyers; we don’t have to care about that, so we should stop enabling the lie that their main concern is enabling free speech.
Costs, playing nice with established powers, not scaring away advertisers by putting their ads too near a nipple — these are their concerns, and we should stop participating in the destruction of the meaning of “free speech” by calling “a narrow spectrum of speech compatible with our current corporate goals” “free speech”.
- buboard 7y agoSure, but , i mean they are free to call it free speech, and use it as a selling point. People judge the truth of that statement by their actions
- msbarnett 7y ago> People judge the truth of that statement by their actions. Which is what I’m doing? I’m not clear what your issue is with me pointing out the inconsistency between their their new fluffy marketing and their actions, given what you just wrote.
- buboard 7y agono issue. i m all for letting people (and the market) judge them. But people are calling for regulation because apparently it 's too "free speech"