EFF: The leading nonprofit defending […] free speech.
Xkcd covered this in detail, what a decade ago?
It’s always “why can’t I be mean to people without consequences?”
Or, “I should be able to be racist/ableist/discriminatory and you have to host my vitriol or else you are violating my freedom of speech, private company!!”
It could be delimited by user count, by moderation style, by liability accepted (section 230 is frequently brought up as an option). In any case, if you think a billion user platform is a private party, you are plainly wrong.
It's a bit telling that you think a a 6 panel comic is "covering it in detail". If you want an even more simplified version of how this can go, free speech is a human right, and given that you're against free speech we can limit yours and make everyone happy. I'm more than happy to let people play by their own rules in this case.
But they really are not public squares. They are not publicly owned or managed in the best interests of the users. They are corporate money-making machines. Don't be fooled.
"It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole, and they're showing you the door."
to "the unelected multinational corporation". Anyway I'll go tell Human Rights Watch [1] that it's just free association in action and that if Palestinians want to have their stories heard they should just build their own competing media platform with global reach. And the EU Commission should also have a copy of that comic sent to them [2].
[1] https://text.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorshi...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/eu-energetically...
A bar, or a music festival is also possibly an unelected multinational corporation. Still can kick people out.
I wonder, why can’t I go into the lobby of the Sony building in NYC and stand in my soapbox and rant about TimeCube?
Technically, my blog is run by an unelected multinational corporation… I guess when I delete spam, I’m censoring, right?
It’s just not that hard people.
Facebook is t the government.
If you don’t kick assholes out of your party, the party becomes less fun, and then there are only assholes in the party.
Yes, it is in fact targeting specific people: those who make the party less fun and protecting those who are just trying to have fun at a party.
https://x.com/IamRageSparkle/status/1280891537451343873?s=20
https://www.boredpanda.com/bar-bartender-nazi-punk-iamragesp...
Tolerance is not a moral imperative, it’s a peace treaty. If you don’t participate in the peace treaty of tolerance with others, tolerance won’t be extended to you.
For everyone else? It’s a feature.
The cruelty is the point.
The only thing I see that's wrong about this is that I don't pay the EFF to tell private companies what to do. I pay them to stop the government from turning fascist.
They're not wrong about Facebook being a POS and these new policies making it moreso, though.
I wouldn't give the EFF a dime.
The EFF however is at least supposed to stand for basic human rights. Like free speech. At least it got a mention in the title, but frankly the author of this article doesn't care at all about it, and doesn't understand the basic principle of why it's important to protect the speech of people they disagree with. So taking a plain view, they're a hateful anti-human rights activist. Not sure why i'd listen to what an anti human rights activist has to say.
You are posting this in a thread and a story about Meta literally saying a certain class of people are considered second class citizens and thus it's perfectly okay to sling slurs and harassment at them.
You do realize this, right? Like you are saying that the company with zero morality telling it's users it's okay to harass people is better than the EFF calling them out. Like if you actually stand for human rights you should be horrified at Meta's actions.
2021 article on how FB's response to CSAM were inadequate: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59063768
(2021) FB creates extremists, and that's OK with them? https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-knew-radical...
(2024) drug sales https://nypost.com/2024/03/16/us-news/feds-investigating-met...
and on and on. It's hard to believe their mitigations are anything more than legal facades to protect them from maximum culpability.
The emperor may be choosing to wear no clothes, but it was a sheer nighty before.