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Re:FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent by romwell on Saturday August 28, 2021 @09:58PM (#28343403)
Why does it matter? You can't argue by an analogy, because first you need need to argue why running a social network with 1B+ users is the same thing as throwing a house party.

With great power comes great responsibility. You don't get to be "popular" for free.

And if you don't like it — you don't have to pay that game.

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Re:FB messenger silently censoring links, claims they were sent by otterley on Saturday August 28, 2021 @10:00PM (#28343413)
> You can't argue by an analogy

Sure I can. I’m doing it right now. Of course, analogies are imperfect, but they make good teaching and argumentative tools.

> You don't get to be "popular" for free.

Fortunately for society, the law disagrees with you. (Also, your way has been tried in the past, and was not especially popular - to the point of revolution in certain Eastern European countries in the 1960s-1980s.)

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