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> “Facebook can try to sell you products, but Facebook can't put you in jail,” Goitein explained. “Ideological prosecution or suppression isn’t in the monetary
by zaroth 5y ago
> “Facebook can try to sell you products, but Facebook can't put you in jail,” Goitein explained. “Ideological prosecution or suppression isn’t in the monetary interest of these companies.”
This is dangerously naive and less than half true. While Facebook cannot arrest you, it can cause you to be arrested for something that is absolutely not a crime. It can also financially and socially ruin you.
And it is most certainly in their financial and ideological interests to do so in many occasions.
- lgvln 5y agoVery much so. A (in)famous authoritarian government prosecuted (successfully) a citizen of the country (while he was overseas in both instances) for publishing a private post on his Facebook (which was critical of the government).
- ccvannorman 5y agoSource pls