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Good piece in The Economist about how Facebook's "arbitrary and capricious" censorship policies are inconsistent, invisible, unaccountable, and affect far more people than, say, the US Supreme Court.

Should pages that advocate violence be removed? What if it's political, like "Death to Israel"?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/08/fa...



>What if it's political, like "Death to Israel"?

Or what if it's in line with official US policy? Like "death to ISIS," or "death to Boko Haram."


Then it will get tons of likes, and funnel through data aggregation channels to later be part of a bar graph of patriotic support for the war effort.

Who said Facebook's censorship was arbitrary?




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