Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created

Re:Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created by saas_co_de on Sunday November 26, 2017 @12:17PM (#15781853)

Correct. But private corporations can choose whether or not to follow in the path of liberal democracy or authoritarianism in how they relate to their customers.

Facebook has more customers than any country has citizens so this question is of great importance to how their service continues to grow and impact the world.

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Re:Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created by dgzl on Sunday November 26, 2017 @12:47PM (#15782038)

> can choose whether or not to follow in the path of liberal democracy or authoritarianism

Liberal Democracy can also be authoritarian. The words you're thinking of are libertarian and authoritarian. Liberty as in free, authority as in ruled.

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Re:Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created by libertyEQ on Sunday November 26, 2017 @01:21PM (#15782210)

Do you not recognize that both words have the same Latin roots? It is only in the US where this illogical distinction is made because the word liberal has been bastardized.

"William Safire points out that liberalism is attacked by both the Right and the Left: by the Right for defending such practices as abortion, homosexuality, and atheism, by the Left for defending free enterprise and the rights of the individual over the collective."

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Re:Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created by libertyEQ on Sunday November 26, 2017 @05:50PM (#15783543)

It is so annoying to be DV'd without a rebuttal. Please make your case and we can debate the merits.

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