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by zionic 1882 days ago
This appears to be a common flaw in human reasoning.

Email has sent countless child porn. BitTorrent as well. SMS? Check.

Everyone understands you don’t blame AT&T when someone texts CP, but to wrap a pretty UI around your protocol and suddenly the unwashed masses expect you to be the sole arbiter of truth and legality for everything that flows over said protocol.

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Point to point communications platforms are different than social media / publishing platforms.
How cognizant is your average user of that though?

A P2P facebook that broadcast your profile to another in a standard way would fool 99+% of users.

Unless you're suggesting that a centralized algorithmic feed is a critical part of the FB experience.