How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage

Re:How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage by AlexB138 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:03AM (#18618083)

> I don't think it is fair to consider large-scale censorship as the only other alternative. Having some kind of neutral editorial process to filter out the unsubstantiated, hateful opinions and leave room for a more nuanced discussion raises the level of discourse, and is the model that have been offered by traditional media for a long time.

The problem with this view is that one person's hateful opinion is another person's oppressed minority opinion. There aren't many objective truths, moderators just end up enforcing their own world view (which we've already seen Facebook do).

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Re:How Facebook Is Fueling the French Populist Rage by ulrikrasmussen on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:19AM (#18618201)

I did not claim that it was a perfect system, but it is better at avoiding devolving into the hateful rage-soup that unedited online forums often do. It is virtually impossible to have a system that is "perfectly balanced" (can we even define what that means?), so rejecting alternatives on those grounds is holding them to unrealistically high standards.

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