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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by dustingetz on Thursday June 25, 2020 @07:59PM (#23647217)
the whole point of a democracy is to give the people what the want
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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by beart on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:07PM (#23647283)
That is definitely not the "whole point" of democracy.
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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by flyinglizard on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:08PM (#23647286)
Not exactly. That’s why democracy doesn’t promote lynchings for example, and why US sets term limits on its presidents even if they are popular.
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Re:Verizon suspends advertising on Facebook, joins growing b... by flatline on Thursday June 25, 2020 @08:32PM (#23647458)
This is more free market capitalism than democracy per se. Facebook is not state run media and Verizon is deciding where to spend it’s money - or in this case, not. I’m not sure what “the people” really have to do with it, except that Verizon is presumably catering to some group of people with this move, or doing it out of some other form of self-interest.
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