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So why is everyone expecting Facebook to "correct" human behavior? They're just the platform, not the generator. If we're going to be fair, ISPs should be FIRST

So why is everyone expecting Facebook to "correct" human behavior? They're just the platform, not the generator. If we're going to be fair, ISPs should be FIRST held accountable for the hate speech their users generate, because if we remove Facebook, someone else will provide a textarea and submit button, but will still use the same cable and internet subscription. In the mean time, media reigns free into radicalizing the population into different-opinion camps, psychopath televangelists can zombify millions and get good profit from the ads. But no, Facebook alone is a threat to democracy.

Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago
You're using the slippery slope fallacy and conflating disparate issues. Shut down Facebook if they can't stop violent organizations from flourishing on their platform. Tax church's and find a way to make these psychotic televangelists illegal, maybe the irs can get them for tax evasion? All these problems boil down to money. If Facebook acts against these radical groups without a court order their Republican investors and shareholders will flee en masse. A federal order is unlikely due to Trump's appointments and lack of precedent or law. A new law is unlikely because Mitch McConnell would sooner die of covid19 then let the democrats score a win, or make Republican social media wetwork harder in the future. McConnell is a founding father of the modern problems with money in Congress and he's been boosting about it for decades. So, to sum it up. Mark is choosing to not do anything and keep profiting off of this shit because he has the legal cover to do so from Trump down. Trump just wants to kill platforms that aren't for him, just like he wants all democrat votes shredded..
- sto_hristo 6y ago
  Or how about the government step up and do its job looking into persecuting these groups? Facebook is not a government, they can't and should not police/persecute people. Are you going to shutdown car manufacturers because a psycho used his car to plow though bystanders on a bus stop? Everything facebook has been asked to do is utterly futile. Sure, they can remove a post or two but the person making those posts still runs free. Fabeook is a victim of their popularity. Because of their size they're easy to blame for pre-existing problems government neglected for too long. Government just doesn't want to deal with any of that for real and so will just throw an angry finger at FB and shift blame.
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Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y ago

You're using the slippery slope fallacy and conflating disparate issues. Shut down Facebook if they can't stop violent organizations from flourishing on their platform. Tax church's and find a way to make these psychotic televangelists illegal, maybe the irs can get them for tax evasion? All these problems boil down to money. If Facebook acts against these radical groups without a court order their Republican investors and shareholders will flee en masse. A federal order is unlikely due to Trump's appointments and lack of precedent or law. A new law is unlikely because Mitch McConnell would sooner die of covid19 then let the democrats score a win, or make Republican social media wetwork harder in the future. McConnell is a founding father of the modern problems with money in Congress and he's been boosting about it for decades. So, to sum it up. Mark is choosing to not do anything and keep profiting off of this shit because he has the legal cover to do so from Trump down. Trump just wants to kill platforms that aren't for him, just like he wants all democrat votes shredded..

sto_hristo 6y ago
Or how about the government step up and do its job looking into persecuting these groups? Facebook is not a government, they can't and should not police/persecute people. Are you going to shutdown car manufacturers because a psycho used his car to plow though bystanders on a bus stop? Everything facebook has been asked to do is utterly futile. Sure, they can remove a post or two but the person making those posts still runs free. Fabeook is a victim of their popularity. Because of their size they're easy to blame for pre-existing problems government neglected for too long. Government just doesn't want to deal with any of that for real and so will just throw an angry finger at FB and shift blame.

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