[hishnash]

The issue I see with adding gov level regulation to Facebook (or any other media) is it very quickly becomes a tool for oppressive regimes.

If Facebook builds in the tools so governments can control exactly what is posted on them then expect every single nation in the world to require access to these tools overnight.

Even nations we might think of as being very condition of the right of their citizens have content they deem illegal and would if they could be required by their own laws to compel Facebook to let them control this.

This, in the end, would not just be about public content but also about all private content, messages sent over FB messenger etc.

Do we want a popover to show up next time we share a hypothetical "dick pick" with a 'lover' saying 'awaiting review from your local authorities'? God forbid you are on holiday/changing planes in a religious extream region of the world and find yourself carted off to jail for 10 years for this.

[te_chris]

There's nothing stopping governments doing this already. Facebook operates financially within their jurisdiction the minute ad transactions with companies and citizens registerd in that territory happen. Governments can cut this off, and it would behove FB to get in front of this.