> So it isn't just a telephone company that allows you to make phone calls, it's a service that makes an editorial choice about what they show you. Understood.

> So it isn't just a telephone company that allows you to make phone calls, it's a service that makes an editorial choice about what they show you. Understood. Perhaps there's a more apt analogy. Let's say there exists a gun manufacturer who's developed a new type of gun that's particularly effective. The problem is the guns are in limited supply. The manufacturer ultimately cares about profit, so it decides to sell the guns to the highest bidder. Most of the guns sold end up providing value to society in the form of protection. But, in a handful of cases, the highest bidder happens to be a violent regime that uses the guns for ethnic cleansing. Do we blame the gun manufacturer or the violent regime? From this perspective, I agree that a small part of the blame falls on the gun manufacturer for not vetting buyers.