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> Facebook should just follow the laws and that’s it That makes sense as long as Facebook delivers its users a plain chronological timeline without forcing con

> Facebook should just follow the laws and that’s it That makes sense as long as Facebook delivers its users a plain chronological timeline without forcing content on them and that's it. Facebook is not a town square. Your post implies that some entity is trying to force Facebook to "silence" people in what is otherwise some kind of natural development of discourse. This is a false assumption since Facebook already applies their own manipulation 24/7. In your "town square" analogy there were already goons patrolling the streets and handing out megaphones only to certain people as well as beating up others based on some internal pattern no one gets to take a look at (though in reality it's "give the megaphone to the people that enrage the most and silence the rest").

Nasrudith 5y ago
> Facebook should just follow the laws and that’s it That makes sense as long as Facebook delivers its users a plain chronological timeline without forcing content on them and that's it. No that distinction doesn't make any sense because that isn't the goddamned law. What is with the nonsensical misinformation making up some emotionally charged meaningless bullshit standard and declaring it so? It makes as much sense as demanding that I never reverse my car because I put maple syrup on my pancakes!
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
  Perhaps you are so singlemindedly beholden to the law that you are missing other factors that are at least as important.
287324234234 5y ago
> without forcing content on them No one has content forced on them. You don't have to use Facebook. You don't have to read the news. Do we complain about the front-page of the NYT? Or CNN? > "give the megaphone to the people that enrage the most and silence the rest" The silencing is coming from one direction. And the resistance to the silencing, is justifying the silencers.

Nasrudith 5y ago

> Facebook should just follow the laws and that’s it That makes sense as long as Facebook delivers its users a plain chronological timeline without forcing content on them and that's it. No that distinction doesn't make any sense because that isn't the goddamned law. What is with the nonsensical misinformation making up some emotionally charged meaningless bullshit standard and declaring it so? It makes as much sense as demanding that I never reverse my car because I put maple syrup on my pancakes!

WarOnPrivacy 5y ago
Perhaps you are so singlemindedly beholden to the law that you are missing other factors that are at least as important.

287324234234 5y ago

> without forcing content on them No one has content forced on them. You don't have to use Facebook. You don't have to read the news. Do we complain about the front-page of the NYT? Or CNN? > "give the megaphone to the people that enrage the most and silence the rest" The silencing is coming from one direction. And the resistance to the silencing, is justifying the silencers.