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by boldpandabear 2115 days ago
Facebook has already taken strong action against people who believe you should not vaccinate your child.

It is almost impossible to find anti-vax groups on Facebook in their search feature. They won't surface them at all.

Even if you type in the direct phrase sometimes.

You have to have a direct link to the anti-vax group.

That is a form of censorship.

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I don't use Facebook but my understanding was that in general it's tougher to do broad searches like that as they want you to be connected via social graph first. could be wrong here though.

At any rate, what's wrong with censorship in online media? It's been my experience that basically every platform lacking censorship turns into a cesspool of bigotry and misinformation.