People like EFF's Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian C. York hold the view that Facebook (and likely Twitter too) "should not be in the bu

People like EFF's Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian C. York hold the view that Facebook (and likely Twitter too) "should not be in the business of censoring speech, even hate speech." [1] I tend to sympathize -- if you set guidelines for speech on your website with any degree of vagueness, you end up privileging [2] certain types of speech based on who the moderators are. With platforms as populated as Twitter and Facebook, censoring speech don't make sense unless it actually violates the law. Ideally a social media website should emulate the real world in its governance of expression, or else any criticism of Israeli government policy is anti-Semitic, any criticism of Obama is racist, etc etc [1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/05/30/facebook_and_hate_speech_the_company_should_not_be_in_the_business_of_censorship.html http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/05/30/facebook_and... [2] apologies if you can't read the word without feeling threatened or Offended, it just fit there