Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWars and Others

Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by justinmchase on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:03PM (#19812154)

I think it should just be based on the sing-up model. If you allow open signup then you don't get to censor those users.

If you want to be able to control their speech then make them sign a contract and agree to pay them money.

It should just straight up not be legal for facebook to ban, block or delete the content of certain users while also having an open sign up model.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by throwawayjava on Thursday May 02, 2019 @05:11PM (#19812983)

This would kill millions of completely apolitical websites with strong user communities.

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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by cirgue on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:08AM (#19818547)

Agreed, this is an absolutely terrible idea. If you want to say whatever you want and be free from censorship, host your content on your own site.

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