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The source of the voice is the only thing that I honestly care about. Again, sympathetic but not practical. Banning a Facebook nut job with a hobby and banning the peer reviewed work of epidemiologists are not equal things. I don’t weigh all speech as equal. By the extension of your logic, all speech has equal value. It doesn’t.

Moral absolutism on freedom of speech is a sympathetic position to take, but not one what’s all that practical... If I exercised my right to freedom of speech to sock puppet thousands of Twitter bots as Facebook accounts to discuss your alleged sexual deviancy, flooded the channel with creative via photoshop, then claimed “ma rights.” would you seriously feel the same way? Facebook is going to stumble through this hard. They’re going to get it wrong, often. They’re at least starting to show how they’re doing content filtering in this article. There’s a world outside of Facebook called the real world where we can meet in person and protest their stupidity if it goes off the rails. Equating Facebook’s wall post feature to the comprehensive number of other ways you can more effectively use your voice... I’m not all the concerned. If Facebook disappeared due to a hardware failure tomorrow, freedom of speech would still be alive and well...

This is such a tiring argument. Corporations are the stewards of their domains. If someone wants to exercise their own freedom of speech, they’re welcome to start their own self hosted blog.

It won’t have the same reach, and it won’t be as visible, but it will be just as free as freedom of speech ever was. If someone started posting their un-cited drivel, racist rants, and society harming misinformation on my hard drive, I’d want it purged. It’s my responsible as a citizen to maintain the health of my system and maintain reasonable discourse with those I disagree with.

Is it “oppression” or an “infringement of our rights” or the “nanny state” when a HackerNews mod deleted a racist post or personal attack on another community member? I think not...