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Facebook commitment to free speech will 'piss people off', Zuckerberg says

JacksinPA

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Facebook commitment to free speech will 'piss people off', Zuckerberg says | Technology | The Guardian

CEO defended Facebook’s decision not to ban political ads and said company will ‘stand up for free expression’

Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, has unveiled a new approach to political advertising which he described as a stand for the principles of free speech, but also one that will “piss off a lot of people”.

In a candid discussion at the Silicon Slopes Tech Summit 2020 in Salt Lake City on Friday, Zuckerberg said that since his company is criticized for both what it does and does not do in terms of monitoring use of its platform, it will now support free speech “because in order to be trusted, people need to know what you stand for”.
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IOW, if they give me money, they can say whatever they want on my platform & I don't care. Neo-Nazi, Neo-Fascists, Neo-Cons, Neo-Commies ....I just don't give a flying crap about what they post as long as they make me richer. Think or say whatever you want. I'm so rich I just don't have to care.
 

Or, maybe it's exactly what he says and he doesn't wish to anoint himself or anyone else the censor of political thought.
 
it's private company. they can do whatever they want. just like how Rush and Sean censor what's on their platforms.
 
Facebook is continually losing ground with users in the teens and twenties demo. It is becoming the AARP of social networks.
 

and if i were to look, i guess i wouldnt find any liberal messages? nothing from the far left? nothing from fringe left groups that might be lets say just as bad as the list above?

why not just shut down all media? all newspapers? all radio? all tv? all print?

apparently we arent adult enough to change the channel, or ignore messaging that we dont want to see....

i mean book burning cant be far behind, right?
 

And thats what platforms should do. He is right. About damn time they stood up for themselves and their communities. Free speech is the way to go.
 
Is anyone shocked? There's entirely too much money to be made in ads.
 

I would support book burnings but I suspect my Kindle has some toxic stuff in it that would be bad for the trees the spotted owls sit in.
 

Ask Trump.
 
ecofarm said:
Ask Trump.
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They are already screening books to be excluded from grammar & high school libraries, and I'm not talking about Marx's Communist Manifesto. The right wing is taking over our kids' minds.
 
JacksinPA said:
They are already screening books to be excluded from grammar & high school libraries, and I'm not talking about Marx's Communist Manifesto. The right wing is taking over our kids' minds.
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Not to mention books banned by the NSC.
 

It's different than watching TV and changing the channel. If you don't understand why, it's because you don't understand the underlying technology and how this information spreads.
 

I'm sorry that you're very upset that political censorship in your favor isn't being pushed on all platforms, just some of them.
 
Deuce said:
It's different than watching TV and changing the channel. If you don't understand why, it's because you don't understand the underlying technology and how this information spreads.
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i dont care HOW the information spreads

by radio, tv, internet, or ****ing smoke signals

either we are ADULT enough to know how to deal with it, or we arent

you all think we arent....that says more than anything about our younger generation

i remember not too many years ago when the religious right thought pornography was going to ruin this country also

Hefner had started Playboy, the sexual revolution was starting....

We got through it okay....

We will get through this....people need to be aware....that's it....and understand what they consume
 

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
 
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