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What free speech? Facebook always reserved the right to control what is published on their platform. Facebook has never been about "freedoms" of any kind, why i
by fuzzylightbulb 2y ago
What free speech? Facebook always reserved the right to control what is published on their platform. Facebook has never been about "freedoms" of any kind, why is this recent news surprising in the least?
- alex1138 2y agoOh boy my favorite HN comment 1) It's "surprising" because this is super vindictive unless they're doing it for very good, specific reasons (otherwise it's just competition killing) 2) "Reserved the right" doesn't mean a given thing isn't censorship, especially not at the scale Facebook operates at
- mdhb 2y agoWe are literally less than a week since Zuck fired all the fact checkers because he said Facebook and Instagram were now all in on “free speech”.
- npteljes 2y agoWrt/ free speech, see the official announcement for yourself: "It's time to get back to our roots around free expression." https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/its-time-to-get-back-to-our-roots-around-free-expression-were-replacing-fact-che/1525382954801931/ https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/its-time-to-get-back-to...