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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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.
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Zuckerberg’s duty is to his employees and shareholders. Is it wise to placate others? Of course. But does anyone have a right to complain that allows free speech on a platform for it in a country where it’s a constitutional right? Yes! And he has a right to ignore them. Which is a passive aggressive corporate form of telling them to shut up.
She didn’t dislike the complaints. She seemed to dislike the public confusion about what could be done about Facebook. A lot of people think the govt should be able to lean on the company and have it respond by removing content they don’t like. Right wing loons like Brent Bozell tried that with boycotts and letters to advertisers in the 80s and 90s. Today, “cancel culture” offers the same thing. Zuckerberg is right to side with free speech absolutists on political speech. If he instead makes FB the arbiter of what’s acceptable and not acceptable political speech, he’s not running a platform but a propaganda machine.
People have a right to lie their asses off in politics. It’s part of the game. It’s expected. If one is dumb enough to buy the lie, the liar has earned that vote. We cannot and should not let the govt, via regulation, play Decider in Chief as to what bullshit may be offered by politicians and what may not. The credulous voting public may need education, but a babysitter to tell them what’s true and false is not education. It’s a step backward - a coddling that creates idiots.
If Trump can dupe you, natural selection should remove your genes ASAP.
