Also, the whole damn point of a leader is that he is the one who decides! That includes facing the "music" of having elected a shit leader. It is not Facebook's job to elect your leader! It is yours!
What do you actually want? To go back to a time where governments had control over the censorship in their country and ban every other country in the world that's rattling their own little propaganda reality distortion filter bubble and circle jerk? Yes, China would love that too, if they hadn't blocked out your propaganda outlets much more effectively than "we" do theirs. (Because they got full totalitarianism... Oh how you wish you had that too, right?) Is the big bad coalition of propaganda TLAs afraid of some incompetent and tiny competitors, or what?
Because: Welcome to the club! Now you know how we, the rest of the world, felt for the last 100 years, regarding America's biggest export. (Let's call it... "culture". But "puppet dictators" works too.) I'm sorry, we don't get to mute your leader, you don't get to mute ours. And it's not smart anyway to be ignorant towards your enemies' propaganda. It is usually more telling about them than about their targets. Like, say, This Fucking Article.
What I read: an article criticizing Facebook for handing shiny new tools to despots, which they are using to perpetuate abuse of their people.
What you read: I dunno, TimeCube?
Are you equating criticism of Facebook's role in maintaining the power of totalitarian governments with the US record of propping up dictators to exploit foreign populations for political goals? Because I'm pretty sure that is the single most batshit thing I have read on here in a while, and that is one hel
Also, the whole damn point of a leader is that he is the one who decides! That includes facing the "music" of having elected a shit leader.
It is not Facebook's job to elect your leader! It is yours!
Assuming 100% of the population agree with being led, sure. Otherwise you're objectively oppressing them by electing anyone.
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PROTIP: Facebook is NOT the world government! (Score:4, Interesting)
Also, the whole damn point of a leader is that he is the one who decides! That includes facing the "music" of having elected a shit leader.
It is not Facebook's job to elect your leader! It is yours!
What do you actually want?
To go back to a time where governments had control over the censorship in their country and ban every other country in the world that's rattling their own little propaganda reality distortion filter bubble and circle jerk?
Yes, China would love that too, if they hadn't blocked out your propaganda outlets much more effectively than "we" do theirs. (Because they got full totalitarianism... Oh how you wish you had that too, right?)
Is the big bad coalition of propaganda TLAs afraid of some incompetent and tiny competitors, or what?
Because: Welcome to the club! Now you know how we, the rest of the world, felt for the last 100 years, regarding America's biggest export. (Let's call it ... "culture". But "puppet dictators" works too.)
I'm sorry, we don't get to mute your leader, you don't get to mute ours. And it's not smart anyway to be ignorant towards your enemies' propaganda. It is usually more telling about them than about their targets. Like, say, This Fucking Article.
Re: PROTIP: Facebook is NOT the world government! (Score:1)
Not for want of trying
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What I read: an article criticizing Facebook for handing shiny new tools to despots, which they are using to perpetuate abuse of their people.
What you read: I dunno, TimeCube?
Are you equating criticism of Facebook's role in maintaining the power of totalitarian governments with the US record of propping up dictators to exploit foreign populations for political goals? Because I'm pretty sure that is the single most batshit thing I have read on here in a while, and that is one hel
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Also, the whole damn point of a leader is that he is the one who decides! That includes facing the "music" of having elected a shit leader. It is not Facebook's job to elect your leader! It is yours!
Assuming 100% of the population agree with being led, sure. Otherwise you're objectively oppressing them by electing anyone.