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In this world every problem has the same solution: Facebook decides what is right and what is wrong.

• bennyelv 6y ago
  ...because governments aren't doing their job and legislating. Why is something of such importance being left up to private companies to regulate?
  • krapp 6y ago
    We don't trust government to govern as much as we trust the free market.
    • bennyelv 6y ago
      Doesn't sound like that's facebook's problem to fix, and nor should they be blamed for the consequences of it. There are significant challenges being presented by the new tools that humanity has built for communication over the last 20 years. I'm not sure that it's the fault of the people who are building those tools that our institutions are failing to get a grip on it. There is a very simple answer to the problem of "why is facebook getting to choose what's right and wrong" and that's "we're not doing it, so they have to". Why don't we just step up and start making some rules?
  • cheschire 6y ago
    Legislation that is responsive can inadvertently create or reinforce monopolies because of the regulatory moat that is created, making it economically infeasible to create competition without already being of equal stature.
  • commandlinefan 6y ago
    Facebook posts are people talking to one another. You really want the government to legislate what people are allowed to say to each other?