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[–] reddig33 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Meh. It’s zuck’s private platform and Zuck hasn’t been running around yelling “absolute free speech!” like some of the other billionaire megalomaniacs have.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He is a major shareholder of a publicly traded company. Opportunistic censorship makes the company look bad because it reveals abuse of power, which reflects poorly on the company as a whole.

[–] some_designer_dude 8 points 1 month ago

This is Facebook. It casts no reflection.

[–] Arbiter 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

if he wants a private platform he shouldn’t open it to the public

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, if my restaurant is open to the public, I can't deny entry to the guy who doxxes me every day. Makes sense to me! We know the results owner is an asshole, so we'll just allow it. We on lemmy never cared about law and order in the first place, we know who's good and who's bad, and based on that we rule on everything.

[–] Arbiter 4 points 1 month ago

lol, tracking air flights is not doxing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

As there are a decent number of anarchists around, no, we literally don't care about your "law and order"

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TIL opening up to the public means relinquishing ownership.

[–] Arbiter 2 points 1 month ago

I’m a sense it does, the people who use the platform is what makes or breaks it. Without the people, what does Elon or Zuck have? An empty website?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

counterpoint: its our biosphere. fuck that piece of shit