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Do you believe facebook does this? It's a Gawker article.
It's a Gizmodo article, unless I'm missing something.
Regardless of political opinion, I think it's disgraceful to only show biased views.
Regardless of political opinion, I think it's disgraceful to only show biased views.
I disagree - It's a private company's prerogative to display whatever content they wish - A competitor could choose to suppress liberal articles. As long as they are not breaking any relevant speech laws, then I see nothing wrong with their actions. If we shut down all biased media, all we'd really be left with is the BBC (although a large number of people would disagree here)
Do you believe facebook does this? It's a Gawker article.
I want a collapse in trust in the major social networks. This is the internet we are talking about. Let them suppress, and let them see what happens.
Regardless of political opinion, I think it's disgraceful to only show biased views.
I disagree - It's a private company's prerogative to display whatever content they wish - A competitor could choose to suppress liberal articles. As long as they are not breaking any relevant speech laws, then I see nothing wrong with their actions. If we shut down all biased media, all we'd really be left with is the BBC (although a large number of people would disagree here)
True, but it could be argued that users are reasonable in assuming that Facebook is a neutral or automatic platform, not manually manipulating content to achieve political goals. If that is true the ethics of misleading millions of people is at best questionable.
Regardless of political opinion, I think it's disgraceful to only show biased views.
I disagree - It's a private company's prerogative to display whatever content they wish - A competitor could choose to suppress liberal articles. As long as they are not breaking any relevant speech laws, then I see nothing wrong with their actions. If we shut down all biased media, all we'd really be left with is the BBC (although a large number of people would disagree here)
Specifically with regards to Facebook, they position themselves as a platform and not as a publisher, so it's not that strange that they're being held to the standards that we expect from a platform, of which neutrality is a big one.
I am a conservative and I see nothing wrong with this. It is their software and their servers, after all. I want a collapse in trust in the major social networks. This is the internet we are talking about. Let them suppress, and let them see what happens.
As long as it gets out you mean?