Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal'

Re:Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop... by not2b on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:53PM (#25740014)

I'm an engineer, not an ideologue, and don't make it a practice of painting myself into a corner just to be consistent. Though I think the big tech companies have too much power, I think the need to avoid having the US government overthrown by a violent coup trumps other considerations. The material they are shutting down includes plans for next weekend to attack both Washington DC and state capitals. Some innocent content could be swept up in this.

Once all this calms down, we can address the excessive power of the platforms with antitrust, so there are more of them to choose from.

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Re:Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop... by LanceH on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:37PM (#25740589)

I think the government has too much power and the cost of losing the presidency shouldn't be so traumatic.

So much of the executive craziness of the last 4 years is due to the ever growing power of the executive branch and executive orders being de facto law.

All this presidential overreach is about to (hypocritically) be put to use and further expanded.

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