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You call it "digital book burning", and you call Facebook a "primary communication channel", because your argument necessitates that you exaggerate so. If you s
by creata 6y ago
You call it "digital book burning", and you call Facebook a "primary communication channel", because your argument necessitates that you exaggerate so. If you see Facebook for what it is --- not an arm of the government, not the only voice anyone has, but just one of many communication platforms --- it's clear that this is no violation of free speech.
Facebook isn't determining "what is true"; it's just determining what it is okay with hosting.
- serial_dev 6y ago> If you see Facebook for what it is --- not an arm of the government I find it easy to see Facebook as one of the arms of the government. It's not the only arm of the government, and it's not the only thing Facebook does, but one could consider Facebook (and other social networks and tech giants) as an arm of the government.
- shadowgovt 6y agoBelieve me, the world would look a lot different if Facebook were actually an arm of the government.
- bjourne 6y agoMuch in the same way that the Chinese firewall is just determining what it is okay with flowing through its fiber pipes.
- yeneek 6y agoIt's censorship for sure.
- disown 6y ago> it's clear that this is no violation of free speech. It is a violation of free speech. Just a legal one. For example, parts of europe, russia, china, saudi arabia, etc there are legal violations of free speech. Doesn't make it right though.