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Re:Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire by roenxi on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @08:26PM (#16644074)
You've piqued my interest with this comment because, read literally, you seem to be against hate.

Hating isn't illegal, immoral or even necessarily a bad idea. Hate can be justified. Hate is dangerous in politics as is any strong emotion. Trying to hold a country together demands compromise, which in turn requires moderation.

Facebook is empowering mass surveillance and propaganda, and encourages outrage and knee-jerk reactions. Trying to separate out who is using that power for good or ill and judge equivalence based on that is risky. If the judgment is wrong great damage will be done.

It is better to to acknowledge that power in itself is dangerous, and political power should be carefully controlled. Controlling and limiting political power has been a very successful strategy leading to excellent results in the past.

Re:Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire by astronautjones on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:09PM (#16644964)
I agree with all of the above, and I'm not saying that what they did is illegal (for that reason - though IMO it was illegal through election laws). I'm saying it's not useful to claim "Obama's campaign did the same" when these guys were bragging about creating divisive, bigoted, violent content and aiming them at a susceptible audience. [1]

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cHYYHF...

Re:Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire by astronautjones on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:55PM (#16645284)
also, CA did this [1], which is quite illegal and immoral:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/cambridge-an...