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Facebook is not a platform to have a voice. It’s a platform that harvests thoughts and publicizes the ones FB most agrees with while censoring those it does not. This is a slippery slope and, quite frankly, it’s the people that lose.
When you're more or less encouraging a coup, the "fire in a crowded theater" analogy couldn't be more applicable.
Facebook is not a platform to have a voice. It’s a platform that harvests thoughts and publicizes the ones FB most agrees with while censoring those it does not. This is a slippery slope and, quite frankly, it’s the people that lose.
The people also lose when others abuse free speech to incite violence.
The power of corporations!
Good. This was absolutely the right move from Facebook. Finally.
> involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government. From my understanding the video that got banned asked everyone to go home peacefully but then continued to claim election fraud?
Facebook is not a platform to have a voice. It’s a platform that harvests thoughts and publicizes the ones FB most agrees with while censoring those it does not. This is a slippery slope and, quite frankly, it’s the people that lose.
When you're more or less encouraging a coup, the "fire in a crowded theater" analogy couldn't be more applicable.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Claims he won in a landslide and that the people invading the Capitol in Camp Auschwitz t-shirts were special and he loves them
Bullshit
Here is the video, in all its slurred shame.
If pointing an armed and angry mob at the Capitol itself isn't over the line, nothing is. I don't like Facebook and haven't used it in years but this is the right move. Four people are dead today because they listened to Donald Trump, and FB and Twitter bear some responsibility for handing him that megaphone. Stopping him from calling for further violence is the bare minimum they can do here.
I keep seeing 'armed mob' posted everywhere without any evidence. What were they armed with? I watched the whole thing live from many angles and I saw plenty of people doing dumb shit like breaking windows and such. The majority just waltzed in took a tour and walked out. They even obeyed the velvet ropes in the entryway. edit: looks like at least one person was inside the capitol with a firearm and four others were…
Facebook is not a platform to have a voice. It’s a platform that harvests thoughts and publicizes the ones FB most agrees with while censoring those it does not. This is a slippery slope and, quite frankly, it’s the people that lose.
If I come to your house and rant about my favorite subject you shouldn't be able to silence me?
Should Trump (or anyone else) have the right to sully FB in defiance of its management wishes?
FB doesn't have a special responsibility, it's a for-profit business that has an obligation to it's shareholders.not society.