Re:Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fi...
by dominotw on Saturday August 29, 2020 @11:01AM
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> stifling Facebook's right to decide what they want to allow on their platform.
Is indian govt really proposing this though? who is stifling their right?
Re:Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fi...
by smt88 on Saturday August 29, 2020 @02:57PM
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The comment I was responding to seemed to be proposing it.
I don't know about India, but in the US, there's been a major debate about whether govt can force platforms to retain posts and several attempted lawsuits over it.
Re:Facebook’s ties to India’s ruling party complicate its fi...
by dominotw on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:08PM
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> The comment I was responding to seemed to be proposing it.
I don't think so. comment wasn't merely presenting its take on things not proposing govt should force fb to do something.
No, it's not. If anything, it's opting out of interfering in domestic affairs.
Facebook is not an official channel. The elected official has many other platforms, including the country's media, that will publish their message. They can create a blog if they want.
If Facebook is the only viable channel for reaching a large part of the electorate, the core issue is having only that one channel. You solve it by forcing competition, not by stifling Facebook's right to decide what they want to allow on their platform.
I deeply loathe Facebook and think they're undermining democracy in every country, but there should never be a way for a government to force a publisher to distribute an ideology that the publisher disagrees with.