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I remain convinced that Facebook is incrementally scrubbing news and politics from their platform.
by georgebarnett 6y ago
I remain convinced that Facebook is incrementally scrubbing news and politics from their platform.
- freeburma 6y agoAh yes, the travesty of murderous thugs shooting their own citizens having their Facebook page taken down. What ever has the world come to.
- wutbrodo 6y agoI love this comment. It captures the current political moment like lightning in a bottle, dominated by simpletons who think every action exists in its own sandboxed parallel universe and can be judged without reference to weakening norms or downstream effects in a dynamic system. Truly a work of art.
- georgebarnett 6y agoYou appear to be reading a sentiment into my comment thats not there. Facebook can do whatever they want (within the law) because it's their platform and thus their rules. I'm merely commenting that I'm reasonably convinced they're (in general) removing news and politics from the platform because its _in their interests_ to do so. Considering the wider issue faced in Australia at the moment, its fair commentary and sarcastic responses don't contribute to the discourse.
- hshshs2 6y agothey’ll continue incremental changes until the heat is off and then go back to not caring
- jtdev 6y agoMore like selectively scrubbing news and politics, this case in point being one more example to add to this troubling trend.
- georgebarnett 6y agoI don't think it's troubling at all. On the contrary - the more politics removed from FB, the higher the net benefit to society of not having citizens continually "enraged at the other side".