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> I also have a hard time having sympathy for a news outlet that choose to live inside facebook and then complains for having to deal with facebook's shenanigans

This is like complaining about anticapitalists participating in capitalism. Just as capitalism is society here, so too is Facebook basically the Internet in Philippines. There isn’t really a choice.

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Isn't he more complaining about capitalists participating in capitalism until other people make more money than them, and only then becoming anticapitalists? It's not a group that has always been anti-Facebook. It's a group that has been on the inside pushing Facebook for a long time until other groups co-opted Facebook to push an agenda they don't like. Now they want Facebook to silence those people.

They're closer to crony-capitalists who like capitalism as long as it benefits them, and then want to pass regulations keeping everyone else out.

Yeah, because they on Facebook's side as long as it didn't seem to be threatening human rights for them. Don't assume anyone not living in your cultural area has the same attitude against facebook on the spot. The Philippines were new to it, and Rappler now learned how dangerous it can be the hard way.

What do you mean by 'pushing Facebook'? Is someone with a blog 'pushing Blogspot'? I'm guessing they started on Facebook because it's free and that's where people are. You seem to be judging it like a startup whose primary aim is profit.

As stated by bigbugbag above:

> I can't help but strongly dislike rappler for being part of facebook's effort to destroy the internet with their internet.org thing

They weren't just users of Facebook. They were involved more deeply in Facebook and spreading Facebook.

https://www.rappler.com/technology/87234-rappler-smart-commu...

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