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amanaplanacanal on Oct 25, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Employees pleaded with Facebook to stop letting po...

Someone is already controlling that speech. The argument is about whether the way they are doing it is good for society or bad for society. Free speech isn’t even on the table here.

287324234234 on Oct 25, 2021 [–]

> The argument is about whether the way they are doing it is good for society or bad for society.

At least it's in an obvious way: to make the most money. For anything else we need to start defining "good" and "bad" which isn't so straightforward.

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