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Facebook wants more power to censor ordinary people while platforming literal terrorists(Taliban associates, Iran proxies etc) at the same time.
by deadalus 5y ago
Facebook wants more power to censor ordinary people while platforming literal terrorists(Taliban associates, Iran proxies etc) at the same time.
- notsureaboutpg 5y agoBoth of those are not literal terrorists as terrorism is defined as the use of violence on a civilian population for a socio-political purpose by a non-state actor That last distinction is how the US itself doesn't get classified as terrorists but can classify Al Qaeda, etc. as terrorists. But Iran proxies (who are government actors in Iraq at least) and the Taliban are government figures of their respective countries.
- trident5000 5y agoThat would be twitter
- noduerme 5y agoI think the way the actual sausage is made is that they don't care who they platform. They'll deplatform anyone if enough people make enough noise and threaten their bottom line, but no one makes enough noise about Taliban terrorists or the Burmese military to threaten them politically. I don't think they're even trying to consolidate power. They appear to be in the very unenviable position of hosting half the internet's public verbal diarrhea, with no freakin clue how to deal with it. No sympathy here for the devil, but this is basically inevitable whenever anyone tries to grab the brass ring and take over a totally chaotic system. Facebook is essentially a failed state.