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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Ruble was challenging the argument that Zuckerberg had a duty to police content. She argued it’s not his responsibility unless regulation or law makes it so, so rather than beat him on him, pass a law (likely unconstitutional) or shut up.
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That's bullshit. If you run a supermarket in a residential neighborhood, and your neighbors complain about the noise from trucks making deliveries at your store in the middle of the night, do you say, if you don't like it, sue me under the law of nuisance or take it to the city council, or do you say, OK, we want to be a responsible member of the community, we'll try to find a way to operate without waking people up?
And people are beating on Zuckerberg and Facebook lately because they choose to police content for commercial speech, but decline to do it for political speech. That's his choice -- why shouldn't the rest of us talk about it?
If she doesn't like that people are complaining about Zuckerberg, she should try to amend the First Amendment to make it illegal or shut up.
