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Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by robbrown451 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:17AM (#23659479)
Sure they'll have to deal with defining that line regularly. This is far better for them than taking an extreme position in either direction.

They also have the middle ground option of putting a warning on things and leaving them up.

Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by pas on Saturday June 27, 2020 @01:35PM (#23663203)
> warning and leaving up

That will work for some time, but eventually there will be posts that will be so egregious that they'll be pressured to delete/hide them.

Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections by robbrown451 on Saturday June 27, 2020 @05:16PM (#23664752)
That's why I said there is a middle ground. In theory they could go further, and have options to make it increasingly hard to read the posts (i.e. you have to click through multiple warnings). But I'm not saying that they should never outright delete things if they are bad enough. They probably should never completely delete Presidential posts/tweets.

The nice thing is that then they aren't censoring. People are able to see what is being suppressed or hidden if they are interested. I think it is good to have nuance built into the tools.