Mark Zuckerberg Is Totally Out of His Depth

Re:Mark Zuckerberg Is Totally Out of His Depth by mdekkers on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @03:25AM (#17756108)

Looking past these "issues" with Zuckerberg & Facebook, Jack whatever & Twitter, and the whole "social media" space in general, I find it totally hilarious (in a deeply tragic sense) that we as the "enlightened west" have been collectively blowing our trumpets about "free speech" ever since the start of the Cold War - free speech always having been rolled out as one of the arguments of our social and moral superiority over the "enemy".

That was all great for exactly as long as the People in Power had the direct and indirect means to control this "free speech". Now we have the technical means to allow anybody anywhere to exercise their free speech in a manner that is actually meaningful, we are all freaking out and looking for ways to shut them the fuck up, as soon as fucking possible.

Appears to me that free speech is fine, as long as you are sticking to the rules about what is acceptable speech, which is deeply hypocritical, if you ask me.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg Is Totally Out of His Depth by sjg007 on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:10AM (#17758035)

I guess it is a slippery slope on a path towards someone yelling "fire" in a theater when no such threat exists and as a society we determined that that is not acceptable. It would have something to do with intent to mislead, harm or knowingly distort some truth. We see "truthiness" and its damaging negative effects on society. Also "free speech" in the constitutional sense is to protect you from government prosecution but it has limits. It is not a license to say anything you want in any context anywhere. Society imposes editorial control through law and order. And by order I mean through organized groups of individuals.

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