[alanlovestea]

On the flip side, do you want Facebook or any company to control what you can or can not say?

[brianwawok]

Do I want regulations that would prevent things that are illegal to say on one media form to apply to all? Sure. You can't just go buy a TV ad that says "blue cars cause cancer", knowing that it will drive business away from a guy you hate that makes blue cars. But I can go have that facebook ad up in 5 minutes.

As part of living in a society, I am happy to cede some freedoms for a better world.

[bduerst]

FTC is supposed to enforce truth-in-advertising laws regardless of the medium (television or online).

[munk-a]

I mean, it'd be best if the government did this and was held accountable in terms of censorship in all the normal ways they are - but Facebook decided to adopt the responsibility to be the one who needs to control it... so they made their own bed.

[r00fus]

They already do. These are advertisements and Facebook accepts money and approves them explicitly (and limits what advertisers can say/do already).

Random FB post - yeah maybe theres a 1st amendment argument there - but ads are already "Facebook authorized speech"

[davidw]

I think this is a more complex issue than some make it out to be.

That said, if you walk into a restaurant and start yelling about something, they can absolutely kick you out, because it's a private company, not the government.