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Re:Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 ele... by maga_2020 on Friday July 12, 2024 @08:11PM (#40950616)
they should not do that because Meta is not a platform for constitutionally-allowed free speech, instead, they are a platform for selective filtering.

So let them stay that way. It is good to have the moral clarity of what they do, enforced by their actions.

It much more beneficial for the society today, and for the future -- that the political actors have their masks off.

I am not trying to suggest that Meta is good or bad, I am just happy that we see Zuckerberg and other billionaires with the mask off, same for many others.

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Re:Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 ele... by krapp on Friday July 12, 2024 @08:16PM (#40950643)
>they should not do that because Meta is not a platform for constitutionally-allowed free speech, instead, they are a platform for selective filtering.

"Selective filtering" by private platforms like Facebook (I will die on the hill of refusing to call it Meta) is constitutionally allowed free speech.

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