It's very interesting how upon news like this, everyone rightly jumps at the throat of the evil corporation pushing for more control of everyone's information.

It's very interesting how upon news like this, everyone rightly jumps at the throat of the evil corporation pushing for more control of everyone's information. But when the discussion is about free speech—which this stuff is directly related to, just in a subtle way—then suddenly at least half the comments are clamoring in defense of the large corporations' right (to censor) to host whatever they want in their platforms. All because "the users don't know better, so it's good to filter the information they get access to" or because "information overload is somehow more likely to push people to the extremes than siloing and letting people live in filter bubbles" and other similarly paternalistic justifications. It's interesting how facebook trying to get the information is bad, but using that information, among other things, to filter what its users see or not is apparently good.