>If I’m queer and Facebook is actively censoring queer content then that’s more significant to me than just being a difference of opinion. The company is actively suppressing my way of life.
Why queer community will not find an alternative app?
Why queer community will not find an alternative app?
They do everything they can to become the central place for online communication and profit enormously from that. But they reject any of the responsibility that ought to come along with that, the refrain being what you're saying here: "well, you can always just go somewhere else"
Except that when online communication is as deeply siloed as it is it's extremely difficult to set up an alternative. How will people even find out about it when their entire online lives are lived on Facebook? This capture is exactly what Meta wants. Remember internet.org?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org
Picking and choosing which services people can use is Zuckerberg's explicit goal.
Like not every social media is good for everything
Top software engineering content is also not on facebook
But answer the question, why should they have to?
Just like restaurant owner can kick you, they also can.
If you dont agree with it, then vote for social media being treated as infrastructure like roads
What I'm asking you is: why should they have to find a new place?
At this point we have gone in a circle, I must assume I won't get a genuine answer to the only thing I have asked despite trying to engage genuinely in conversation. Have a good day.
If they believe that someone is harming them, then they should stay with them?