Re:Employees are leaving Facebook and torching the company i...
by thegrim33 on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:30PM
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It's even stranger to me that the censorship is applauded and cheered on because people believe it's "for a good reason". But that doesn't change the fact that it's still just blatant political censorship on a massive level. Every evil regime in history has done evil things under the guise of convincing the citizens that it's OK because it's "for a good reason" or directed against "bad people", but that doesn't change the fact that it's still evil. No matter how much political propaganda they push about why the censorship is good, it's still massively partisan censorship and suppression.
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Re:Employees are leaving Facebook and torching the company i...
by FireBeyond on Friday December 11, 2020 @02:58PM
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And yet you can go to Parler, and they will happily censor pro-left / Democrat / liberal posts and positions. And openly do so. And have the people there stating it as their right (which it is). So these right leaning people absolutely do have a platform.
Is it as popular? No. Maybe that's because their perspective is less popular. You don't have the right to an audience to your speech and it's not suppression to choose not to use my [or Facebook] resources to amplify your words, nor is it my problem that your platform doesn't have the same audience and reach.
Re:Employees are leaving Facebook and torching the company i...
by jfrunyon on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:49PM
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> it's still just blatant political censorship on a massive level
Uhhh... no, banning lies and hate speech is not "political censorship". That implies that lies and hate speech are legitimate political views.