Comment on Papua New Guinea shuts down Facebook in test to stop 'pornography, misinformation, hate speech'
themurphy@lemmy.ml 2 weeks agoIs it really a problem for freedom of speech, if it’s only a platform getting banned and not specific content?
If you are allowed to talk about anything still everywhere else on the web, I can’t see the freedom of speech card being valid in this case about FB.
FB is already controlling what you see, making freedom of speech better without them.
max_dryzen@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Look at what’s really happening though: the state is implicitly saying you can have free expression provided your reach is miniscule/ineffectual. The moment you get traction is the moment it will move to block use of your preferred platforms, or simply hard-/algorithmically ban you
They rely on the public’s credulity when they insist freedoms are intact because ‘only one website’ is verboten. It’s a dirty exploit
Zoot@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Facebook exclusively promoted rage bait and is used as a propaganda machine, if anything they’re circumventing a free and open space by not showing you everything in the first place.
If Facebook simply gave you a wall of every single thing pushed and didn’t hide/promote things you would have a leg to stand on.