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Re:Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for... by sanxiyn on Monday March 11, 2019 @08:16PM (#19364200)
I think Facebook has every right to take down the ad calling for breakup of Facebook.
Re:Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for... by almost_usual on Monday March 11, 2019 @08:57PM (#19364431)
This would suggest Facebook supports censorship
Re:Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for... by malandrew on Monday March 11, 2019 @09:01PM (#19364450)
It's an ad, not organic content posted by users. If the latter were blocked, I could see it as censorship.

Should <insert name of television or radio station> news be required to run ads that are critical of itself?

Re:Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for... by kevin_thibedeau on Monday March 11, 2019 @09:58PM (#19364696)
Users aren't paying Facebook to host their content. FB have zero obligation to continue doing so. They are well within their rights to censor perniciously and arbitrarily.
Re:Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for... by cronix on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:48PM (#19364923)
Yeah, they probably censor child porn, and other things, too. Don't you support censorship?
Re:Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for... by stale2002 on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @04:15AM (#19366242)
If Facebook wants to lose it's safe harbor protections, then yes, it has the legal right to censor content.

I doubt that Facebook wants to lose those protections though.

Re:Facebook backtracks after removing Warren ads calling for... by amanaplanacanal on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:44PM (#19364903)
Of course they do, but it looks bad politically.

There are a lot of things that it is perfectly legal to do, which you probably don't want to. Especially if you are a public company.