Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page
by viraptor on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:22AM
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> and perhaps "testing the waters" to see how far they can take it atm.
This is precisely the jumping to conclusions. We don't know if it's related to the recent bans. FB was pretty open about the reasons for banning Trump and it got an announcement from Zuckerberg. There's lots of people banned every day for wrong reasons and lots not banned for wrong reasons. Of course they're all at the mercy of FB - that's not new.
Re:Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page
by danielrpa on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:23AM
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We find ourselves in a science fiction US where we need to divine the opaque reasons of an all-powerful technological entity that can decide at whim who can or can't speak in this country.
And they do it while enjoying strong protections (Section 230) that most other private businesses don't receive - have this in mind when making the "private web property" argument.
Well, Facebook did jump to conclusions and even moved to action and banned people.
So "jumping to conclusions" is the least people can do in return...
>I suspect and hope this will be reverted very quickly.
That would still be at the mercy of FB, a bad precedent, and perhaps "testing the waters" to see how far they can take it atm.