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by nickff 2125 days ago
The problem is that excessive blaming will foster high levels of risk aversion, as seen in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24304275
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This is a case of advocating to suppress one kind of speech because it will lead to the suppression of another kind of speech. So maybe there isn't a problem here?

If the act of criticizing Facebook changes Facebook's behaviour because we've observed people are doing bad things linked to Facebook's current practices that is just the marketplace of ideas in action, isn't it?

>"This is a case of advocating to suppress one kind of speech because it will lead to the suppression of another kind of speech. So maybe there isn't a problem here?"

>"If the act of criticizing Facebook changes Facebook's behaviour because we've observed people are doing bad things linked to Facebook's current practices that is just the marketplace of ideas in action, isn't it?"

I don't understand what you're trying to say; perhaps you could clarify what you mean by adding some punctuation to your second paragraph.

"Excessive blaming" is just another kind of speech.

If people observe bad things happening because of stuff going on on the Facebook platform and engage is excessive blaming that's just speech.

If Facebook becomes averse to risks with respect to what is on their platform, that is just Facebook being responsive to customer concerns.

You're just not going to have a platform where this relationship doesn't exist, there's always mods.. we need 'em.