Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar...
by toofy on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:58AM
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> ...to public pressure, doesn’t that demonstrate that these “market leaders” don’t actually get to decide what content they host?
This is a strange way to frame what businesses do every single day. If a business believes a certain product is unethical or that the product wont sell very well, they choose not to peddle that product. This is a determination just about every business deals with on a regular basis.
By acceding to public pressure, doesn't that demonstrate that these "market leaders" don't actually get to decide what content they host? FB/YT/Twitter/Reddit have consistently dragged their feet on removing extremist content. I think the last couple years have been proof that a laissez-faire model of governing the online public sphere has been a spectacular failure.