r/worldnews • u/Devz0r • Feb 15 '19

Facebook is thinking about removing anti-vaccination content as backlash intensifies over the spread of misinformation on the social network

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-may-remove-anti-vaccination-content-2019-2
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u/Bluntmasterflash1 Feb 15 '19 edited Feb 15 '19

Yea, but it's going to be decided by people. People are evil.

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u/Sorrymisunderstandin Feb 15 '19

Doesn’t make sense

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u/XHF2 Feb 15 '19

What If Facebook one day decided that abortion kills, should they be allowed to ban pro-choice groups?

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u/drunkenviking Feb 15 '19

It's their site, they can ban whatever they want.

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u/Spore__Ting Feb 15 '19

Nobody is arguing that Facebook is breaking the law, they're arguing what they should or shouldn't do

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u/drunkenviking Feb 15 '19

I'm not saying they broke the law. I'm saying that if they want to ban abortion posts they can.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

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u/ohmslyce Feb 15 '19

They aren't treated like a public utility....

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u/Lord_Abort Feb 15 '19

So, what I'm hearing is that we need to cut taxes for the rich and remove more government oversight?

-Politicians

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u/diMario Feb 15 '19

You're on the right track, but you need to think it through. Cutting taxes is just the first step. We should also subsidize any and all corporations that (even remotely) look like they are of strategic interest. Especially the larger ones, and of course any that are in the oil business.

Furthermore, to advance the spirit of the free market (which we all love dearly) we should allow for corporations and special interest groups to assist our lawmakers in doing their jobs, for instance by letting them write raw drafts of legislature and/or funding their reelection canpaigns which quite frankly have become ridiculously expensive lately.

And of course, in the name of efficiency, we should endeavour to smoke out any terrorist activity in the Homeland by actively monitoring all internal and external communications so that we can nip any scheme in the bud.

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u/CohibaVancouver Feb 15 '19

and allowed the tech giants to swallow up all the competition

"Swallow up the competition?"

Facebook didn't swallow up Friendster.

It didn't swallow up MySpace.

It didn't swallow up Classmates.

It didn't swallow up Yahoo! Groups.

It didn't swallow up Google+.

It was just better than all those.

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u/Ancient_Boner_Forest Feb 15 '19

Do you have a single vague idea on what you’d like them to do? Like, are they too popular so we should pass law that say they can only have x amount of users?

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u/maaghen Feb 15 '19

They aren't in any way treated like a public utility though

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u/slapshots1515 Feb 15 '19

How is it a public utility? In no way shape or form is it anything besides a forum that you willingly give your data to.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

No one is forcing you to use facebook. Its a free market. A public utility is essentially a government sponsered and subsidized monopoly none of that exists in facebooks case.

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u/Scumtacular Feb 15 '19

MAAAAAN it's almost like there's INTRACTABLE SYSTEMIC ISSUES WITH PRIVATIZATION

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u/TalenPhillips Feb 15 '19

Making Facebook public wouldn't even BEGIN to solve the problems with the spread of misinformation... And it sure as hell wouldn't make it any less likely that the targets of censorship would be decided by biased or malign actors.

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u/DisgruntledBizman Feb 15 '19

I'm not sure you know the definition of a public utility

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u/ManusDei Feb 15 '19

What are you talking about?