Facebook Bows To Revenue,Share Price Pressure

[grunion]

After Coca Cola, Unilever and others withdraw all advertising from Facebook and Instagram, at a community meeting on Friday Zuckerberg announced that Facebook now "will hide or block content considered hateful or that could harm voting, with no exception for politicians." I guess all that pablum about not being in the "content" business came home to hit him in the gut now that his advertisers are taking a stand.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/f...changes-at-social-networking-giant-2020-06-26

 

[smartcooky]

Bbbbbbut...... Free Speech^TM

 

[rjh01]

Bbbbbbut...... Free Speech^TM

In the USA you can say what you like about the Government and the Government cannot give you any sanction for it. That is free speech. Outside of that people do not have free speech. It is something the ignorant protest about.

 

[smartcooky]

In the USA you can say what you like about the Government and the Government cannot give you any sanction for it. That is free speech. Outside of that people do not have free speech. It is something the ignorant protest about.

Yes, that was my point, albeit made with a dollop of sarcasm.

 

[bluesjnr]

Yes, that was my point, albeit made with a dollop of sarcasm.

.... if ya gotta 'splain it.................

 

[smartcooky]

.... if ya gotta 'splain it.................

What do you mean?

 

[Random]

Bbbbbbut...... Free Speech^TM

You have a right to speak. You do not have a right to be listened to.

 

[grunion]

Apparently they didn’t bow deep enough. Or very deep at all.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/tech/facebook-civil-rights-meeting/index.html

 

[JoeMorgue]

.... if ya gotta 'splain it.................

The internet will cheer you for how good of a Poe you are?

 

[Ziggurat]

In the USA you can say what you like about the Government and the Government cannot give you any sanction for it. That is free speech.

No. That is the first amendment. Free speech is broader than the first amendment.

Outside of that people do not have free speech. It is something the ignorant protest about.

That's not true. There are very limited legal protections for speech outside of the first amendment, but there aren't none, and the principle and value of freedom of speech isn't limited to what legal protections exist.

 

[TurkeysGhost]

Apparently they didn’t bow deep enough. Or very deep at all.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/07/tech/facebook-civil-rights-meeting/index.html

That's been my understanding as well. Token gestures, but not most of the meaningful conditions that were being asked for.