you don't call it censorship, of course. you call it "mitigation". Your entire twitter stream for the past day is about this.
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Replying to @miltonmueller
You think it's ok for FB to drown people with outright fake news with nary an indication while censoring nudity on the site?
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Replying to @miltonmueller
Mitigating fake news? Yes. If that's your definition of "censoring news", words have lost meaning.
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Replying to @zeynep @miltonmueller
Couldn't they just slap a big blinking "this is a fake news site" label on posts with those links?
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Replying to @normative @miltonmueller
There is a million things they can do. Facebook already judges who wins and loses. Nothing new here.
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Replying to @zeynep @normative
What's new is that you want them to enforce your political preferences
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Replying to @miltonmueller @normative
Not at all. I'd like them to cut down on fake stuff of all political stripes. I first wrote about this in 2012.
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I raised this first in the context of Obama win; repeated this, wrote on NYT, and clashed with many Obama people.
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Replying to @zeynep
OK, so just make up your mind: is FB's "massive control over speech" a "major problem" or do you want aggressive filtering?
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Both are problems. There is no free-for-all in Facebook: it decides—not a real market. Since it does, it must do it better.
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