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Zuck says Facebook made an 'operational mistake' in not taking down US militia page mid-protests. TBH the whole social network is a mistake

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Re: If there were no Facebook?

> The reality is, if there were no Facebook, there would be some other platform.

Yes, very true, but Facebook's nefarious role in all this is that it gives these extremist sites a veneer - or the appearance - of legitimacy.

A social network website with the address https://www.welikeshootingblackpeoplewithrifles.org/ wouldn't be able to gain, or claim, mainstream legitimacy. Except perhaps among its members. It would be labeled as an extremist, racist website and that would be the end of it. While the government could not do anything to suppress their right to freely express their vile ideas, public opinion is not bound by the same constraints.

Post the same exact vile and extremist content on Facebook, and suddenly it's no longer vile or extremist. Now it's all about Facebook and Zuck -- mankind's self-appointed Archangels of Civil Rights -- defending freedom of speech and our inherent right as human beings to connect with each other and make the world a better place.

Someone by the name of Mark Zuckerberg is knowingly and intentionally creating, and defending, a false equivalence, for the sole purpose of profiting from it. Consequences be damned.

At this point, hard to tell who's more repugnant: those promoting extremism, or those providing them with the cover of false legitimacy.

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