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Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
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Napoleon Ier wrote:You people need to grow up to be honest.
armati wrote:"If the freedom of speech be taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington
Mr_Adams wrote:You, sir, are an idiot.
Timminz wrote:By that logic, you eat babies.
mrswdk wrote:Hey look at that, armati made a good point.
The whole 'as long as the government behaves then everyone else can do what they want' line doesn't really hold any water. ]You wouldn't say that in relation to theft or murder, would you?
mrswdk wrote:Protecting freedom of speech means ensuring people have equal opportunity to express themselves and be heard, not giving some people the freedom to ramble to themselves in the park while others are allowed to share their thoughts with millions of people on Facebook.
Mr_Adams wrote:You, sir, are an idiot.
Timminz wrote:By that logic, you eat babies.
spurgistan wrote:In the US, the right to free speech is protected under the 1st amendment to the Constitution. The federal government is not allowed, except with certain narrow/broad exemptions, to infringe upon the right to free speech. Facebook is a private company. Facebook is not the government. Facebook is under no obligation to uphold freedom of speech. The government is still not infringing on anybody's right to free speech. Facebook is allowed to do what it wants to keep people from stopping checking it and keeping users sending their data to the mines. If you don't like that, feel free to stop checking facebook. The right to Facebook is not in the Constitution.
tzor wrote:spurgistan wrote:In the US, the right to free speech is protected under the 1st amendment to the Constitution. The federal government is not allowed, except with certain narrow/broad exemptions, to infringe upon the right to free speech. Facebook is a private company. Facebook is not the government. Facebook is under no obligation to uphold freedom of speech. The government is still not infringing on anybody's right to free speech. Facebook is allowed to do what it wants to keep people from stopping checking it and keeping users sending their data to the mines. If you don't like that, feel free to stop checking facebook. The right to Facebook is not in the Constitution.
You make a very good point about the limitations of the First Amendment (prior to the adoption of the "incorporation Doctrine" it also didn't apply at the state level either and some of the founding fathers used that to great effect to silence the opposition). A lot of the problems concerns the question of whether Facebook is a platform or a publisher. Editing content makes it a publisher and thus makes it liable for its content. Specifically whether or not you can invoke Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." The more Facebook insists on making editorial decisions on content the more it enters into the realm of publisher and it becomes harder to push the wording of Section 230.
So while Facebook has a right to restrict speech on their site, it in turn has an obligation when doing so. And that, in a nutshell is why forum moderators are despised and hated throughout the entire known universe.
Mr_Adams wrote:You, sir, are an idiot.
Timminz wrote:By that logic, you eat babies.
spurgistan wrote:armati wrote:"If the freedom of speech be taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington
In the US, the right to free speech is protected under the 1st amendment to the Constitution. The federal government is not allowed, except with certain narrow/broad exemptions, to infringe upon the right to free speech. Facebook is a private company. Facebook is not the government. Facebook is under no obligation to uphold freedom of speech. The government is still not infringing on anybody's right to free speech. Facebook is allowed to do what it wants to keep people from stopping checking it and keeping users sending their data to the mines. If you don't like that, feel free to stop checking facebook. The right to Facebook is not in the Constitution.
spurgistan wrote:Which, no matter how pro-China you may be, Facebook has a legal and ethical responsibility as a corporation to keep their website from contributing to the Rohingya from being persecuted and killed ...
spurgistan wrote:mrswdk wrote:Hey look at that, armati made a good point.
The whole 'as long as the government behaves then everyone else can do what they want' line doesn't really hold any water. You wouldn't say that in relation to theft or murder, would you?
No, because murder and theft are different than spreading slander over the internet.
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