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Re:Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritar... by beat on Monday December 24, 2018 @03:03PM (#18753975)
But the way you phrased it, you make it sound as if it were the fault of the students, that this is simply a difference of opinion. It is not.
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Re:Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritar... by ordu on Monday December 24, 2018 @03:56PM (#18754228)
I want to cry. I hoped that the way I phrased it would let me to stay away from this particular issues, not to fight over them and let me to speak about the opinions fighting in a whole.

Though maybe humanity not that bad and hopeless, maybe it was my English is that bad and hopeless?

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Re:Facebook is not equipped to stop the spread of authoritar... by beat on Monday December 24, 2018 @04:09PM (#18754282)
It might well have just been your English. Communicating ideas in a second language can be very difficult!

The way I see it, there is an asymmetry of power. Governments are able to harm individuals far more than individuals can harm governments. This needs to be taken into account when we talk about "freedom" online.

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