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Re:Free Speech Puts U.S. on ‘A Collision Course’ with Global... by bobthepanda on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @04:54AM (#19726683)
The platforms entered murky waters the moment they decided to recommend content rather than just show you content from people you explicitly chose to follow.

They should be held responsible not for their content, but for whatever they’re recommending (and thus tacitly endorsing) for people to watch.

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Re:Free Speech Puts U.S. on ‘A Collision Course’ with Global... by anfilt on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @05:11AM (#19726762)
Well when it was only what you followed it was a decentralized choice much like the search engine filter.
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