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A comment on Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t be able to buy ads. Parent comment

Re:Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t... by wu-ikkyu on Monday August 28, 2017 @12:36PM (#15117887)
>Punishing individuals and groups who willfully and knowingly engage in spreading information containing false facts concocted to support their intolerant views is absolutely necessary to protect freedom of speech

Punishing people for spreading information you don't like in the name of protecting free speech is double speak

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Re:Facebook says Pages that regularly share false news won’t... by quoquoquo on Monday August 28, 2017 @12:42PM (#15117944)
Punishing people who willfully concocts false information and disseminates for the purpose of spreading racist/intolerant views are very different than what you've highlighted.

Thinking a group of people is lesser than you because of the arrangement of their skin color pigmentation, and crying freedom of speech is being attacked, is not going to get you a lot of sympathy, especially when you now try to actively shut people up who are calling you out on it.

> freedom of speech means freedom to mislead

sure, but don't get all up and mighty when you get called out and shut down.

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