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I think the uncomfortable truth is that no one wants social media companies to be the Internet police, and any kind of arbitration they do on the content posted
by ricardo81 6y ago
I think the uncomfortable truth is that no one wants social media companies to be the Internet police, and any kind of arbitration they do on the content posted is going to be counted as negligence or censorship.
Unfortunately the business model of these companies is user-generated content at scale, which they never could have effectively policed from the beginning.
- LudwigNagasena 6y ago> no one wants social media companies to be the Internet police I wish. Facebook wouldn’t do anything if there was no angry mob to demand such measures to be implemented.
- linuxftw 6y agoThere's no angry mob on FB. The people that don't like the fact FB doesn't censor content left a long time ago. Everyone that's outraged about FB doesn't use FB. They want to be the arbiter of what other people see and think. This seems to be highly prevalent for a certain political ideology.
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- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoMany politicians quoted in the article are quite explicitly calling on Facebook to be the Internet police. Senator Warren says that Facebook has a responsibility to ensure people have the right beliefs about climate change.
- pault 6y agoI'm no fan of Warren, but a more charitable view would be that she wants people to have the right information, and let them form their own beliefs.