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I am really confused as to why folks think Zuck is making editorial decisions. Facebook is not one person, and it makes its content decisions based on the brand
by fnordpiglet 4y ago
I am really confused as to why folks think Zuck is making editorial decisions. Facebook is not one person, and it makes its content decisions based on the brand and type of experience they think their customers want. Social media is not a right, nor is it even a specific thing. Facebook is a brand and a service for communicating to people you know in a family friendly way. They have no obligation to be a troll amplifier or to facilitate ideologies they feel are offensive to their target demographic and advertising base. That’s against the entire point of their for profit advertising based business, and would be materially harmful. Unlike common carriers you don’t rent time on Facebook to communicate. You agree to their T&C and their advertisers fund their service for you to be entertained by in exchange for the advertising. They never represented themselves as a free for all political outlet, and anyone who thinks otherwise just accepted “free signup” as “free speech” and clicked through the T&C that is written to protect their business.
The social media you refer to is abstractly the internet in general, and while your cause is considered toxic to business you may have a hard time finding a ready made platform with hundreds of billions of dollars invested in it for your spew, but you will always be able to find a way to host an endpoint and distribute your content. But no one is obligated to amplify it for you, especially not for profit enterprises who are creating a branded experience for their customers.