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If you're trying to equate "right wing opinions" with "things assholes say", as the comic implies, then I agree with you there. If you're trying to say that th

• quanticle 11y ago
  But how do you define awful? That's what the parent is asking. Is Rush Limbaugh "awful"? Should you be banned from Facebook for quoting him? What about Marx? Am I supposed to be banned for advocating the violent overthrow of an "unjust" capitalistic system? I agree that Facebook isn't the government. Facebook can't throw me in jail. But the internet is supposed to be more than that. The promise of the internet was that anyone, no matter how crazy their opinion, would have a relatively equal voice and could publish their opinions using the same tools as thosed used by the powerful. With Facebook's policies, we're going back to the old pre-Internet media landscape, where a small cloistered elite gets to decide whose voice gets amplified and whose fades into silence. Meet the new media elite, the same as the old media elite.