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Re:The extended ‘chilling’ effect of Facebook (2016) by lisper on Sunday February 05, 2017 @03:10PM (#13574312)
> it's no longer being enforced by people we know and interact with but instead by people who we may barely know at all

And whose core motive is to make money.

Re:The extended ‘chilling’ effect of Facebook (2016) by scotch_drinker on Sunday February 05, 2017 @03:37PM (#13574487)
This is an often missed but critical difference in social norms enforced at the community level versus online social networks. It's no longer the community that is trying to protect itself through policing individuals. It's a profit motive of the owners of the networks and they clearly have other goals by definition.