>Pretty harmless in this case No! It's worse. If a democratic government mandates something that some view as unreasonable, they can always hope that the ballo

>Pretty harmless in this case No! It's worse. If a democratic government mandates something that some view as unreasonable, they can always hope that the ballot box and elected representatives can at some point reverses the action. If a private company "anticipates" a government's actions in an unreasonable way, what appeal is there? >but I wonder if Facebook would do the same in countries with speech censorship and human rights violations. Countries may not even need to build a GFW or filter Facebook since they would rather voluntarily comply than be regulated. I don't disagree. But I suspect that Facebook by and large isn't allowed in such countries in the first place (China, for example).