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That should be OK. If my friend wants to send it to me, why shouldn't he be allowed to?
by heartbeats 6y ago
That should be OK. If my friend wants to send it to me, why shouldn't he be allowed to?
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoOn an individual basis - one-to-one communication, sure. But on a publishing platform where a posted article can have millions of viewers with no connection to the author who would miss out on important context... that won't end well. There's a difference between Facebook facilitating private communication between individuals and small groups with inherently limited information-spread (e.g. phone calls, emails, IM) and Facebook operating a publishing platform that allows for mass communication. The problems we're seeing today stem from that very same mass-communication publishing platform being used as a state-level propaganda tool to sway public opinion (e.g. Russia discouraging Dem-leaning voters in 2016) at one end, to Facebook knowingly allowing and facilitating extremist groups to operate on their platform and coordinate real-life terroristic assaults at the other end.