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Re:Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row es... by aidenn0 on Friday September 09, 2016 @04:59PM (#12466000)
> Yep, it's not a public utility, it's not governed by a neutral third party, it's not open, transparent or free. What did you expect? It's a surveillance and marketing platform that you subjected yourselves to out of convenience, operated for its own benefit and indirectly to the benefit of its customers, certainly not its users.

With the possible exception of "surveillance" everything you just said is also true of newspapers.

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Re:Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row es... by lotyrin on Friday September 09, 2016 @07:46PM (#12466839)
Not really relevant, I didn't have to subscribe to NYT in order to stay in touch with my friends and family.
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Re:Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row es... by oldmanjay on Friday September 09, 2016 @11:02PM (#12467463)
If you're going to start splitting hairs then you don't "have to" use any one particular method of staying in touch with people. Supreme convenience is not force.
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Re:Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row es... by amenod on Saturday September 10, 2016 @03:21AM (#12468110)
> Supreme convenience is not force.

In theory, it is not. In practice, it is. Not only that, in case when there is a fight between almost anything (such as privacy, security,...) and convenience, the latter will always win (on large scale).

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Re:Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row es... by throwaway199283 on Friday September 09, 2016 @05:19PM (#12466131)
Facebook is also the town square where people are selling the newspapers, Facebook is the streets that newspaper delivery trucks drive down, and Facebook is the sidewalks on which employees at the newspaper walk to work.

There is no public space on the internet, just a network of private residences.

Facebook has positioned itself as the public square. The freedoms of the press, speech and protest are predicated on equal access to these public forums and they clearly do not exist in our current media landscape.

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Re:Facebook deletes Norway PM's post as 'napalm girl' row es... by the8472 on Friday September 09, 2016 @05:42PM (#12466269)
> There is no public space on the internet, just a network of private residences.

Net neutrality/common carrier rules make the streets public space. But that means only open-source, authority-less p2p communication is free.

Everything else is under someone's thumb.

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