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Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of... by reaperducer on Monday April 09, 2018 @12:45PM (#16794643)
>Why,? The world would be a better place with less pointless political advertising

Who gets to define "pointless?"

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Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of... by smsm42 on Monday April 09, 2018 @04:30PM (#16796708)
Obviously, political advertisement you disagree with is "pointless" and the world would be a better place without it. </sarc>

More specifically, the filtering would be informed by the biases and prejudices of those who control the gates. As it always is.

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Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of... by paulie_a on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:57PM (#16795312)
Every once and a while society can and does use common sense, it's not a Boolean flag
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