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People say that in the abstract, but in practice they actually do want that.

It's the same way Americans want the government to be small and non-interfering until you're talking about specific policies that actually sound pretty good, like stimulating the economy by handing people money.

People don't want Facebook to be arbiters of truth, until you get people spreading dangerous anti-scientific conspiracy theories and the like; then suddenly they believe Facebook should've done more.




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