Yup. They are painting themselves into a corner and they're going to be the one blamed in the end. Not a good move.
Mark should have either said "we will only take down illegal content" or "we're going to do what we want to maintain appropriate content".
The first would be much easier because, with the 2nd, they will be the decision maker on everything and will get dragged into every decision that's political (all of them?).
Hard to do that when they've given millions the Republican party. I know they like to think they play the middle, but Facebook as a company has favored Republicans, historically.
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That is really, 100% not true. They got less involved with the Dems than Google did, which helped, but apart from Joel Kaplan, they really never had any inroads with the Republicans.
And corporations are immoral fuckwits only concerned with survival, regardless of the ethics (or lack thereof) of the people involved.
Mark should have either said "we will only take down illegal content" or "we're going to do what we want to maintain appropriate content".
The first would be much easier because, with the 2nd, they will be the decision maker on everything and will get dragged into every decision that's political (all of them?).