[cstoner]

They built a messaging platform that could be used by litterally anyone to spread any message, and have done a pretty poor job of preventing its use by outside aggitators.

That's definitely a tetanus filled rusty playground if I ever heard of it.

[woah]

Quoting the OP:

> By the same logic we can also blame the internet as a whole.

It may be trendy to hate on Facebook right now, but this kind of hand-wringing is ultimately an argument for internet censorship.

[aylmao]

Exactly.

Which is what scares me. News lately have scared a lot of people into this censorship-supporting mentality and the idea of some sort of thought police.

To have a healthy public discourse we need to strive for is educating people so immoral acts don't happen, not implement mechanisms that could lend themselves to censorship.

[nitwit005]

They can also send those messages with phone calls, SMS, ordinary mail, some guy yelling in the street, or whatever else. Facebook doesn't seem particularly worse than the other alternatives.