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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by tmpz22 on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:35PM (#23656712)
I disagree, you can't have no moderation AND advertising optimizations at the same time. Because radical positions increases engagement metrics, advertisers will push users towards their most extreme content at all time. We need to put a ceiling on how extreme that content can be.
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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by pdonis on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:42PM (#23656790)
> you can't have no moderation AND advertising optimizations at the same time

So the convenience of advertisers and the ad-supported business model should override free speech?

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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by driverdan on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:32PM (#23657295)
There is no free speech on private platforms.
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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by pdonis on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:53PM (#23657971)
If that is the case, then the post I was responding to is wrong when it says "We need to put a ceiling on how extreme that content can be." If Facebook is just a private platform, "we" have no right to dictate anything to them.
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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by tmpz22 on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:53PM (#23658303)
That's a pretty slanted interpretation of what I said, what I meant may be better spelled out as:

"Because social media platforms demand extreme optimizations in favor of advertisements and general engagement, social media platforms cannot also be a conduit for free speech or un-moderated content as this combination will naturally favor extremist content and deliberately steer users towards extremist views that favor such optimizations".

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