Comment Conflating two issues wrongly (Score 0) 206
People here are conflating Facebook doing the right thing and removing content with censorship. Censorship is when a person is not allowed to say or promote an idea. No one is suggesting that a person is not allowed to say or promote ideas, within certain quite reasonable legal limits like yelling fire in a movie theater.
What we are saying is that Facebook should not be allowed to promote known false, dangerous, malicious, and intentionally inflamatory comments _FOR_PROFIT_. We are not asking to censor Facebook's speech in any way, we are saying they should not be allowed to do such things that they know are wrong or sometimes illegal for money, BIG difference.
Facebook's business model is based on making people angry, afraid, and polarized. They are effectively monetizing the destruction of the social order, and doing it in a knowing way. They should not be allowed to do so, or at least not be allowed to do so with the legal shields they have.
No one is suggesting that we remove their, or their user's right to speech, just that they should not be allowed to magnify it for profit.