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> Because Facebook doesn’t build roads or bridges. But they do control the soapbox. They can simply silence you, without any due process. They can divorce you
by noasaservice 5y ago
> Because Facebook doesn’t build roads or bridges.
But they do control the soapbox. They can simply silence you, without any due process. They can divorce you from your social network.
- barsonme 5y agoSure. But to circle back to the current discussion: is that more important than clean water or human rights abuses? It’s not that Facebook can’t do bad things, it’s just that there are reasons why you might be more worried about the government doing bad things and therefore talk about it more (like in the article).
- goodpoint 5y agohuman rights abuses are exactly the kind of things that happen when the public opinion is manipulated in certain ways.