Mark's speech today is well worth your morning read. One nit: it's so long and nuanced that I wish he would split it out into separate themes/topics over multiple speeches/events to get each its own air time and discussion. https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/standing-for-voice-and-free-expression/10157267502546634/ …
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Replying to @sriramk
I don’t think this really addresses the Russian ideology of “flooding the zone” to sow discord, mistrust and confusion — particularly if American groups and institutions learn from and adopt this playbook to maintain or accumulate power amid confusion.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Think the speech has a lot of implied "We believe X is valuable and is therefore worth the downsides even though we will try to mitigate that" For example - his section on political ads.
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Replying to @sriramk @kimmaicutler
this bit also hints at thatpic.twitter.com/WcVfEelotR
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Replying to @sarthakgh @sriramk
Actually, Facebook goes far beyond the legal minimum necessary. Taking out dehumanizing speech goes above and beyond American free speech law because, like I said, our hate speech standards are so much lower than most anywhere else in the industrialized world.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @sarthakgh
@antoniogm once made a great point. The follow up question to “companies are not beholden to the first amendment” is “in that case, what do we as a country all agree on for what speech should be if not the first amendment?”1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
That’s not at all right. Corporations are exercising *their* 1Am free speech rights when they moderate content on their platforms....
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @sriramk and
Eh. The arguments here always boil down to “social networks should downrank or censor all non-mainstream-media content”. Always in the name of some higher good, always the substance of censoring any voice other than MSM-approved ones.
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I don’t think that’s the case. I think the core of the problem is FB has demolished old structures where we as a democratic society come to truth and consensus about how to proceed as a society without replacing them with anything that remotely fulfills that role.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @balajis and
Lots of journalists leveling that critique come from totally “new” not historically mainstream orgs like Buzzfeed and Vox which are ~10 years old or less and are digital native.
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