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Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by dillondoyle on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:27AM (#18344508)
I can understand the public interest.

I wouldn't mind a vetting process that works; google's just doesn't at least for us. The time not up with ads === censoring political speech IMHO and to me political speech is sacrosanct. The tradeoff isn't worth it.

But also I have probably an extreme view out of the norm for most here. I view politics as almost capitalistic (not just in that I make money doing it) but that it's a competition of ideas, attention, advertising etc. So despite being pretty strong D I value an 'open arena' even if open to abuse. I feel the same for non-paid content. Attempts to 'vet' or label content as factual or biased seem to all have problems or are game-able and for me personally I don't think it's worth the trade off. Though in my 'theory' of political competition I acknowledge it's very hard to fight back against 'fake' and nation-state opponents. Again, I'm probably extreme here but I do understand the public interest argument.

Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by heavenlyblue on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:58AM (#18345251)
>> Though in my 'theory' of political competition I acknowledge it's very hard to fight back against 'fake' and nation-state opponents.

So what's your solution then? Even less moderation?

Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by dillondoyle on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @05:44PM (#18349521)
I'm not offering a solution. Though I do think that role should be left to police, government, and regulators. Now that FB and Google are collecting affidavits and scans of IDs, it is much easier for the actual rule keepers to hold law breakers accountable.

'organic' content is much harder and I don't have solution, just that I take a more 'stopping the few bad actors, != not worth affecting the mostly good' view (than it seems the vast majority) when weighing the potential effect on actual political speech any solution has

Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook... by mnx on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @08:36AM (#18345116)
Thanks for this perspective, I think it's a shame you were down-voted for providing it.