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by ProAm 3616 days ago
Why not, its a private site, freedom of speech does not pertain to Facebook.
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Right, legally it's okay for facebook to censor stuff. But ethically/morally, some people do not think that's the case because they feel they're abusing their large marketshare.
Ethics and morals with Facebook? They have a long troubled history of dealing with both. It's a company, and companies want to make money, that's the bottom line. Of course it's censored in their best interests.
Morally, they have the right to decide who they want to associate with.
Well the obvious example is conflict of interest cases.

Take the hypothetical situation where someone writes a negative exposé on Facebook privacy policies and then plugs a competitor. Suppose in this contrived example that Facebook systematically removes all related content to this exposé and bans the creator.

On one hand Facebook is a private company. On the other they are built around a communication platform and communication is a constitutionally protect right in America. Moreover, this type of practice could be considered anti-competitive and subject to anti-trust regulation (a bit unusual, but there is precedent).

I am not trying to advocate one or another view on this issue...more of trying to frame what I think is an interesting question: Where is the line where private rights give way to public rights...if at all?