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arielcostas·

So much for free speech, huh

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It's free speech, but only if Uncle Zuck agrees with it.

On the other hand, I wouldn’t have heard about it if it wasn’t for the block :)

Streisand's effect at its finest :)

What free speech? Facebook always reserved the right to control what is published on their platform. Facebook has never been about "freedoms" of any kind, why is this recent news surprising in the least?

Oh boy my favorite HN comment

1) It's "surprising" because this is super vindictive unless they're doing it for very good, specific reasons (otherwise it's just competition killing)

2) "Reserved the right" doesn't mean a given thing isn't censorship, especially not at the scale Facebook operates at

We are literally less than a week since Zuck fired all the fact checkers because he said Facebook and Instagram were now all in on “free speech”.

Wrt/ free speech, see the official announcement for yourself:

"It's time to get back to our roots around free expression."

https://www.facebook.com/zuck/videos/its-time-to-get-back-to...

Free speech has never prevented a private company from policing their own platform and Facebook especially does not promise "free speech".

Just like "state's rights", "free speech" has always been a lie told by those who want only THEIR speech to be free, which is why you can say the N word on twitter and not get banned or blocked, but if you say "cracker" you may be downranked

You seem to be referring to the United States' First Amendment, whereas freedom of speech is a western liberal value. The parent comment was pointing out that Zuckerberg does not uphold the value.

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