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Re:Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy ... by s1artibartfast on Thursday October 31, 2019 @02:32PM (#21412076)
>You want folks with money to have “more free speech” and don’t see anything wrong with that?

Yes, I don't see anything wrong with that.

If I choose to print 1,000 flyers to hand out, I am using money to amplify my voice. Do you see anything wrong with this?

Facebook Ads are no different.

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Re:Zuckerberg doubles down on Facebook political ads policy ... by dfalfndfk on Thursday October 31, 2019 @04:49PM (#21413583)
We should cease pretending scale does not matter. Also that analogies are useful. Your flyer analogy is not useful because it does not _replace_ another flyer. A clear analogy would be buying advertising space in a newspaper.

If you were to buy the entire newspaper's advertising space to amplify your voice I would definitely consider it an abuse of power and wrong.

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