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What is worse, I wonder: Facebook that blindly follows the law or Facebook that tries to work out its own ethics...

• hnbad 4y ago
  This is a false dichotomy. Facebook can't be ethically neutral. "Following the law" blindly has ethical implications. Facebook has demonstrated its ethics time and again. Contrary to what the far right fringe likes to pretend, those ethics just aren't exactly progressive. This is a lot like liberals complaining about "political ideologies" from a position steeped in a specific political ideology (i.e. neoliberalism) that is so commonplace as to have become as invisible to them as the air they breathe. Just because you don't write a manifesto about it or fit an exact archetype to the tee that doesn't mean your actions are politically or ethically neutral. Unless Facebook's decisions are literally decided by an unbiased random number generator, they follow one leaning or another, as conflicted, incomprehensible and incoherent as it may be.