Obviously, Facebook does not benefit much from "hate speech". The majority of content on Facebook and the associated advertising/revenues are from other types o

Obviously, Facebook does not benefit much from "hate speech". The majority of content on Facebook and the associated advertising/revenues are from other types of content. The broad generalizations made by the Twitter mob and news media about Facebook being 'built' on hate or 'profiting' from hate is hyperbolic. That said, I think it is fair to say that Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube all benefit from engagement. And engagement is often built on emotion, particularly negative emotions like outrage. Personally, I wish Facebook would simply not give credence to complaints about 'hate' and only censor content that breaks the law. If someone doesn't like a certain page or group or whatever, they can just choose not to follow them. It is very simple. Therefore, what the anti-Facebook crowd is asking for is not about their own experience. It's that they want no one else to be able to harbor certain views or opinions or even to discuss them. That's dangerous, and the vague and ever-expanding label of "hate speech" disallows conversations that need to take place on controversial topics. Given that there it is easy to curate one's own feed and experience on Facebook, the motivation of this activist mob is simply to stifle others' freedom of speech. The fact that they are doing it by pressuring a large private organization (instead of a public one) does not make it any better, even if it is legal. It is still unethical and immoral from my perspective, because freedom of speech is that fundamental to our society. Today in the US, there is a ubiquity to attempts from mobs stifling speech using labels like "hate speech". This must be met with fierce opposition in all situations, big and small. If not, it will eventually bleed into more and more of our society. We're already seeing it in absurd situations like Stephen Hsu's resignation (see https://www.thecollegefix.com/scholar-forced-to-resign-over-study-that-found-police-shootings-not-biased-against-blacks/ https://www.thecollegefix.com/scholar-forced-to-resign-over-... or https://quillette.com/2020/07/01/on-steve-hsu-and-the-campaign-to-thwart-free-inquiry/ https://quillette.com/2020/07/01/on-steve-hsu-and-the-campai...).