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by hyperdunc 2725 days ago
Facebook thinks it can push its own moral standards for speech on users while at the same time repeatedly compromising the privacy and data of users.

And Facebook does this without a hint of recognition that such imposition will be (and already is) being used as a political weapon against dissident voices.

That's hubris.

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I feel like you’re personifying “facebook” itself a bit as a sole entity when in reality its composed of thousands of individual people each with their own ethics and viewpoints so its not really like those are the same people working on privacy and suppressing hate speech, which I feel like would be somewhat of a necessity for your point. Really, everyone at that company is doing their individual best at their respective responsibilities to varying levels of success. But that really isn’t a coordinated calculated effort beyond what each person brings to the table.
No, FB is controlled primarily by Mark Zuckerberg, and then secondarily by the Board of Directors.

Major corporate policy such as what we are discussing is dictated by them, in that order.