Zuckerberg said senior Biden administration officials “repeatedly pressured” Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, to “censor” content in 2021. “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken,” he wrote to House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). “Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction – and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again,” Zuckerberg added.
How is this relevant to us? The subject here is about the platform’s influence on society, not of Zuckerberg.
The platform is accommodating people- or trying to, anyhow- that would likely turn on him in a heart beat.
It’s patently stupid to alienate the vast majority of people, who look at antivax as rampant stupidity, to accommodate people who will inevitably prove to be too extreme.
Look at what’s happening on twitter, with advertisers leaving.
That’s about to be Facebook.
Again, what happens to him personally or to Facebook as a company is irrelevant when it comes to how our lives are affected. The regulation of social platforms is good for society regardless of the efect regulation has on the owners or the companies owning the platforms.
Your argument is built around the wrong desirable outcome.
This isn’t argument for regulation social spaces.
This is me passing around the popcorn and watching Facebook go up in flames.
Zuck is being dementedly stupid here. That’s all I’m saying.
Okay, look: I really need you to knock it off with this argument, please. 'Cause if you keep going with it, you’re gonna start convincing me that maybe we should let Zuckerberg post all the anti-vaxxer bullshit his shriveled, blackened heart desires, after all!
(And that’s bad because, as much as I’d love to see Zuck fuck up, @RidcullyTheBrown is right.)