this sounds like a strawman to be honest because I haven't heard anyone rant about illegal music since probably 15 years, and if anything ever only politicians and not ordinary people.

If we'd be talking really malicious stuff like chid pornography then in the context of filesharing these companies already have systems in place to distinguish content, so blanket banning of torrent files seems blatantly unnecessary.

> this sounds like a strawman to be honest because I haven't heard anyone rant about illegal music since probably 15 years

This is the real strawman, as nobody on this entire thread is talking about illegal music. On the other hand, there's a strong and persistent thread of calls for tech platforms like Facebook to control "malicious or illegal" information being spread on their platforms: an obvious example is the NZ shooter's manifesto + video.

Twitch didnt get deplatformed because a mentally ill person streamed murder on it, and you wont hear a peep about the other big chan. That had nothing to do with "protecting" (seriously? wtf) people from reading some mentally ill person's note, it was a problem-reaction-solution to axe an inconvienent site.

Malicious content could also include phishing and viruses.

I can not imagine this headline really. We are talking about private messages.

So we want Facebook to stop propagating fake news and hate speech and we want them to do so without crawling URLs?

Yes. Those are mutually exclusive.