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Re:Facebook blocks sharing of critical Guardian article by brianmcc on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:24PM (#18097799)
You forget perhaps that we HN folk are not typical. What you describe is not widely accepted, not by a long way.

To most users FB is absolutely a pure(ish) content exchange medium. They treat posting like sending SMS or what have you, an 'open' exhange, and not entirely unreasonably IMHO given 11+ years of precedent.

With that in mind today's event becomes significant. It rams home that FB is in control. And frankly that's new to most people!

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Re:Facebook blocks sharing of critical Guardian article by stcredzero on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:29PM (#18097815)
They treat posting like sending SMS or what have you, an 'open' exhange, and not entirely unreasonably IMHO given 11+ years of precedent.

Back when SMS was new, people treated it like it had time end delivery guarantees, even though it had neither, and messages could sometimes be delayed by 20 minutes or an hour. I even had a girlfriend accuse me of lying because of that.

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Re:Facebook blocks sharing of critical Guardian article by sobani on Monday October 01, 2018 @05:41AM (#18111170)
That's the problem with anything that's true 99% of the time. People start to believe it's true 100% of the time.

That's why your ex didn't expect this 'SLA', because most of the time messages arrive practically immediately. And that's why most people don't expect Facebook to block non-spam, non-offensive content, because most of the time they don't.

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