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Re:Update on New Zealand by mr_toad on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:40PM (#19436842)
What you say about Facebook other people say about the internet as a whole.

And what some people say about the internet, others say about society as a whole.

Censor Facebook, or all of the Internet? Or all social discourse?

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Re:Update on New Zealand by Mirioron on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:48PM (#19436923)
To keep society civil we need a strong leader that will protect us from immorality and evil!

^ This is how you get authoritarianism. Authoritarianism usually ends in suffering. I will take a free society over that, even if it comes with disgusting content.

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Re:Update on New Zealand by panarky on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:45PM (#19436897)
For now, let's focus on the bad actor that is responsible for 95% of the weaponization of social media.

After we solve the Facebook problem, then we can see what the next biggest threat is, and address it.

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Re:Update on New Zealand by ng12 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @10:30PM (#19438356)
Yep. And the next biggest threat, and the next biggest, until we're at a point where humans can't be trusted with their own private conversations (and eventually private thoughts).
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