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by ImPostingOnHN 49 days ago
Some people are not okay with actively facilitating harm to people, even if inaction results in harm to other people. See: the trolley problem. This is totally okay, but the point made above is that

>That's a tradeoff you can choose to make

is not correct: It is a tradeoff that one specific person can choose to make, but not one that I or we can choose to make, because we don't control facebook. Mark Zuckerberg controls facebook. He alone can choose to make that tradeoff, or not, on behalf of society.

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He can't do it alone because Facebook is under US jurisdiction.
Yes, facebook is under US jurisdiction.

Yes, he alone can make the choice. Not you or I.