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politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
3. Obviously, I do.
Sat Sep 30, 2017, 02:59 PM
Sep 2017

If every social media business with a website is now going to be responsible for every comment posted on it's website, then we are in trouble. That includes this one. Do we know for certain, Russian Bots didn't infiltrate this website? I read some strange things on this board during the 2016 campaign. What's next, lawsuits over content which wasn't pulled fast enough and someone's feelings were hurt?

As I said, I'm not big user of Facebook, and I certainly don't use it as a source of news and political information. But if the Government gets into the business of regulating free speech, outside of the realm of pornography, slander, physical threats of bodily harm, yelling fire in a crowded theater, etc than God help us all. Just because I said I don't have much use for it, doesn't mean I want to see a private business enterprise destroyed or regulated out of existence because a foreign country used it to disseminate bogus information during an election campaign. We live and we learn. If the government forces Facebook to monitor every utterance posted on it under the threat of fines or other penalties, it will will drive it out of business.

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