Thaivisa Facebook page blocked to readers in Australia

[Dart12]

On 2/20/2021 at 9:00 PM, Blumpie said:

Facebook sucks.  It always has, and it always will.  You are allowing it to harvest everything about you in so many ways.  Pause on an add?  They look at that.  They look at everything.  

I don't give a damn about facebook.  And you will probably find in 30 some odd years there could be billions that say permanently "this sucks" and quit using it.  

The only hook they have in people is keeping in contact with people.  

or all the $$ you can make from home off of it yearly with very little start up cash.  I have a love hate relationship with it, especially what it's become over last2? years.

[WaveHunter]

Facebook (as well as other platforms like Twitter) have been acting in the most outrageous way lately when it comes to arbitrarily blocking links to sites or posts on their platforms that they oppose simply because the views expressed are in opposition to those who run the platforms. 

 

What gives them the right to be the arbiter of free speech?  They say they are a "neutral" tech platform, but when take such actions purely because they oppose the views being expressed, they are acting as a media company, not a "neutral" public forum platform, and should be held to the same standards of legal liability.

Edited February 23, 2021 by WaveHunter

[Olmate]

I bet fb backsdown today

[tjo o tjim]

In case anyone cares, the issue is Facebook makes money off the news without customers actually reading linked articles, based on the discussions that ensue from the headline.  Facebook doesn’t want to deal with having to pay any “news source” money for being linked to.

Facebook is evil and everything, but they might have actually made a smart play here.  The law as written is unworkable for them (and many other smaller sites, like ThaiVisa).