[briandear]

I am not sure I understand the Facebook need to curate anyway. The phone company doesn't censor phone calls.

[gbl08ma]

The phone company doesn't place adverts on your calls, nor suggests products based on the subject of your calls, does it?

Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. all need to curate so that their platforms stay family-safe, in order to please advertisers and the general public (imagine how bad it would be for e.g. Facebook if the general media started portraying them as supporting e.g. "terrorism").

[icebraining]

The phone company doesn't place adverts on your calls, (...) does it?

Actually, mine does, if you have a certain mobile plan, people who call you get an ad for the plan when its ringing.

[1ris]

>(imagine how bad it would be for e.g. Facebook if the general media started portraying them as supporting e.g. "terrorism").

The general public has to accept there are some things they don't like and still have the right to be there, and stop acting like a spoiled brat. IMHO. Of course that wont happen.

[pjc50]

Only because calls are transient, one-party, and when the telephone was developed automatic censorship wasn't possible.