Are you against newspapers, radio and TV refusing to run blatantly false ads from politicians? Why should Internet companies be exempt from those restrictions?
Because radio has multiple stations you can choose from that prioritize certain lies over others. Same with TV. Fox news says one thing, when CNN says something completely different. There's lies and manipulation on both ends and you can pick and choose.
Facebook is a lot closer to public infrastructure than both radio and TV currently. There's no other facebook you can go to when you don't like how this one is curating your content. When you force facebook to tell what is lies and what isn't, you're giving it way too much power.
There are plenty of other social networks: Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc. But even given all that, if we still think Facebook has so much power that we're afraid of it fact-checking political ads, we should just break it up.
All those other social networks fill other niches than facebook. You can't fully replace facebook with twitter or youtube, because they are intended for different use cases.
It's like saying that if the electric company is refusing to provide service at your home address, you should just use gas instead. Not the same. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t buy it. Electricity and gas are two clearly distinct things; the lines between the social networks are much more nebulous. Can you enumerate the various social network “niches”?
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Are you against newspapers, radio and TV refusing to run blatantly false ads from politicians? Why should Internet companies be exempt from those restrictions?
Because radio has multiple stations you can choose from that prioritize certain lies over others. Same with TV. Fox news says one thing, when CNN says something completely different. There's lies and manipulation on both ends and you can pick and choose.
Facebook is a lot closer to public infrastructure than both radio and TV currently. There's no other facebook you can go to when you don't like how this one is curating your content. When you force facebook to tell what is lies and what isn't, you're giving it way too much power.
There are plenty of other social networks: Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc. But even given all that, if we still think Facebook has so much power that we're afraid of it fact-checking political ads, we should just break it up.
All those other social networks fill other niches than facebook. You can't fully replace facebook with twitter or youtube, because they are intended for different use cases.
It's like saying that if the electric company is refusing to provide service at your home address, you should just use gas instead. Not the same. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t buy it. Electricity and gas are two clearly distinct things; the lines between the social networks are much more nebulous. Can you enumerate the various social network “niches”?