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As long as Facebook is attempting to care about the spread of misinformation, can they nuke the various Flat Earth groups? I swear those people provide breeding
by elsonrodriguez 6y ago
As long as Facebook is attempting to care about the spread of misinformation, can they nuke the various Flat Earth groups? I swear those people provide breeding stock for almost every other conspiracy theory on the planet.
- curiousgal 6y agoThey are just appeasing the Democrats before they take control and break them up. Big Tech has had no issue offering services to third world dictatorships but when Americans drink the same koolaid, suddenly it's a pressing issue! Just to be clear, I am not blaming them, I am just pointing out the hypocrisy.
- nojito 6y agoOr it was because of a literal coup attempt last week.
- thatguy0900 6y agoFacebook facilitates coups all over the place. Successfull ones, even! They care now because the democrats can actually do something in retaliation.
- adolph 6y agoIt's weird that Americans became so ineffective when COVID came and they had to coup from home.
- n00bsaretheb3st 6y agoSo should facebook deny or give access to rioters in Hong Kong? What about Arab Spring? Or will daddy zucc decide which leader is "good enough".
- khawkins 6y agoWhile we're at it, let's remove internet access from everyone with mental disorders. Clearly they can't handle the responsibilities of internet access. /s
- gibspaulding 6y agoWe could just start requiring a university account for connection to the internet and finally end the eternal September! /s
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- dimgl 6y agoSurely, this is sarcasm? If not, then I guess as a society we're starting to be okay with just outright silencing people.
- ketamine__ 6y agoDo these people have a right to broadcast their views on Facebook and be heard?
- bun_at_work 6y agoDoes anyone have a right to mass audiences? No.
- hertzrat 6y agoAs long as we’re talking about banning people for saying things against the consensus view, we can wipe the books of Galileos name
- bun_at_work 6y agoThis is a false equivalency. Facebook, unlike the Catholic Church 500 years ago, doesn't rule anything.
- hertzrat 6y agoWe’re taking about promoting the idea of deplatforming people on a massive scale because of their beliefs. I’m sorry the idea of resisting that offends so many people and I never thought hn would be the place it’s promoted so strongly Edit: these aren’t nazis were taking about, they’re people who get a kick out of using the scientific method in a mistaken way
- istjohn 6y agoNo, they just control the world's largest public square.
- bun_at_work 6y agoYeah - a private company. Before them people found ways to communicate that didn't prey on the weak parts of human psychology. Why not use those methods now? Why is a private service provider beholden to any crackpot? Is the argument being made that the government should be in charge of how private companies moderate their content? Or just that you disagree with Facebook's choice? If it's the latter, that's fine, we can disagree. If it's the former you're getting into some awfully murky logical territory.
- istjohn 6y agoMy position is that when a private company has so much power that it rivals nation states in the control it can exert on public discourse, it should be limited in similar ways to the way we limit political power with first ammendment protections. The case for such free speech protections is essentially the same as the case for the first ammendment restrictions on government power. Arguably, the case is even stronger, since private corporations have no democratic accountability.
- mkolodny 6y agoI see removing "stop the steal" posts as an attempt to prevent violence. Flat earth groups aren't trying to incite violence as far as I've seen.