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by oconnor663 2863 days ago
This is a fair criticism, but at the same time you have to be realistic about what Facebook would be like with no content filtering. There would be lots of porn. There would also be lots of group harassment. It's possible to police some harassment without policing content, but those merge into a gray area quickly. Facebook wants to be an acceptable environment for teenage minors (there are legal requirements for this, not just social ones), and that one criterion alone probably requires the majority of the filtering they do today.