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Re:Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created by saas_co_de on Sunday November 26, 2017 @12:23PM (#15781884)
> Well, there is such a place. The U.S.

That is sort of the point. Once all speech transits corporate networks and those corporations are empowered to censor that speech then the public square protected by the U.S. Constitution no longer exists.

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Re:Facebook Can’t Cope with the World It’s Created by weepingprophet on Sunday November 26, 2017 @01:43PM (#15782307)
But Facebook already "censors" algorithmically. You are not shown a democratic slice from a marketplace of opinions. You are given a curated echo chamber of voices algorithmically optimized to keep you engaged/enraged. The voices that rise to the top are either the ones with the deepest pockets or the ones that most activate the lizard part of our brains.
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