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> At the end of the day, Company X hosts the servers and decides what they host and if Company X don’t want to host some kind of content they won’t. That's ver
by jevoten 5y ago
> At the end of the day, Company X hosts the servers and decides what they host and if Company X don’t want to host some kind of content they won’t.
That's very reductive. There are many laws limiting how companies can behave, especially once they exceed a certain size, because a laissez-faire approach has been shown to be harmful to society. Workplace safety, food safety, building codes, anti-trust, etc.
Such laws do not yet exist for social media activities, but that's not an argument that they shouldn't, or that these companies shouldn't try to behave better even absent such laws compelling them.
I'm not saying they should or shouldn't fact check, or censor according to their whims. I am saying that you can't dismiss it as "they're a private company they can do what they want".