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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.
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Of course he has that right, but he pays attention when right-wingers criticize him, so that encourages the rest of us. Also, Facebook in general is very sensitive to criticism. They think it's very unfair. They want to be rich monopolists, and for no one to ever complain about what they do.
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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.
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No one has a problem when he regulates lies in commercial speech. What's the principled reason that he should let politicians lie when he's not willing to let for-profit businesses do it?
And please note: He is running a propaganda machine. That's exactly the problem.
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People have a right to lie their asses off in politics. It’s part of the game.
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He has a right not to permit it on his platform, so the language of rights only takes you so far.
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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.
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No one has a problem with the idea that TV networks/stations can decline to run ads that have lies in them. There's no particular virtue to allowing people to lie.
2016 apparently taught you nothing.
