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Your response is somewhat an example of what I was talking about. By not clearly distinguishing between the different concepts you end up with muddled arguments. You've clarified here and said that in the private case there is a 'moral obligation'. Really? What exactly is the obligation? Falling back on the generic notion of 'free speech' doesn't actually clarify the argument. For example, if I managed a public forum…

I agree with you for the most part, but I also think that we can expect organizations above a certain size or influence to have a bigger moral obligation than the little players. Unlike law, morality is a gradient. It doesn't sound unreasonable to say that the more power you have to shape the world around you, the more obligation you have to use that power for the greater good. This kind of noblesse oblige is not a f…

What 'monopoly' do you image exists today regarding deciding what people can or can't say in their daily life?

Sounds like a problem that doesn't actually exist.

Re: Facebook Backs Down on Censoring ‘Napalm Girl’ Photo

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One thing that I don't understand is why all these people that complain about Facebook don't just ... stop using it. Just seems like a gigantic waste of time to me... ;-)

Here are two examples: * My group of friends and acquaintances who play badminton coordinate on Facebook; we do not work at the same place or have each other's phone numbers. People use the number of "Going" people to figure out whether there are still slots to play or not. * The local university feminist organization is organized 100% through Facebook. We send one email a month or so to our mailing list, but if you…

I'm a member of plenty of discussion groups that run on a VBulletin board or something where you can register and start posting. Why doesn't the local university feminist organization do that, why do I have to give give up my private info to Zuckerberg et al just to be part of it?

Maybe I'm weird but my larger social groups are usually focused on specific things and I'm happy to interact with them in a forum designed specifically for that purpose, not owned by a huge information-sucking company.

In fact, I find the requirement to be a member of Facebook as a condition of productively working with that feminist org to be really exclusionary.

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