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Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by Pils on Thursday May 02, 2019 @05:28PM (#19813151)
> The issue is not whether Facebook is breaking the law but whether philosophically the market leader in a category should get to decide who can use their product when their product category is fundamental to modern life. Saying "no one is owed a platform" brings us no closer to an answer.

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.

Re:Facebook Bans Louis Farrakhan, Milo Yiannopoulos, InfoWar... by toofy on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:58AM (#19817973)
> ...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.