…I mean, just like Twitter, regarding them banning figures like Trump and Alex Jones, Facebook and Instagram technically are private platforms, essentially meaning that they are not obligated by law to prevent people from—nor allow people to—us(ing) them as platforms for purposes of free speech and free expression, or whatnot.
Private companies protect their product and themselves.
For a company like Facebook nothing matters more than the bottom line, until it matters.
For example they weren’t a ‘Unique Identity Platform’ until one of their executives said they were in Federal Court. Now if they ARE NOT a ‘Unique Identify Platform’ that executive is perjured and the results of the trial might get revisited. So they ARE a ‘Unique Identity Platform’ in every form of communication that might appear in discovery - even if they aren’t.
Trump and Alex Jones were not being throttled by Facebook until they started doing things that resulted in lawsuits in the BILLIONS of $US, and started losing those cases. Trump and Alex Jones have lost every significant trial that went to court and because they were using Facebook to do that, Facebook is exposed.
And the exposure was greater than the potential profit.
So Facebook creates a rule set that allows them to kick those liabilities off of their platform to defend their own bottom line.
And seeing how people would constantly use that logic in regards to right-wingers and/righ-wing extremists getting banned off of such sites, I would also expect that they (and you, as well) would most certainly consistently apply such logic to everything and anything else—again, regarding social media outlets like Facebook and Instagram, along with Twitter—too.
The far right and the far left seem to enjoy believing that everything is the result of a conspiracy.
Even when what is really happening is that the free market has voted.
And the vote went against them.
Which they know the free market would NEVER do in a MILLION years so it must REALLY be lizard men from the hollow center of the Earth controlling all governments on the planet and private companies like Facebook by eating the adrenal glands of children in the basements of pizza parlors.
Because Facebook would NEVER do anything just to protect their giant piles of money! That’s UNTHINKABLE in a free market capitalist environment.
Same thing happens here.
Say in the past we ban someone for sending a massively threatening PM to someone else, threatening to drive to their house and slit their throat, or threatening to shoot up a school, in excruciating detail and with so much specific information that we treated it as a plausible threat of harm.
Obviously it wasn’t because they broke Rule #0 so hard the police actually got involved.
No no no - couldn’t be that. No, it OBVIOUSLY had to be because we’re controlled and paid by (((Soros))) who is trying to drive all right-thinking rational people from the internet because this thread is a lefty hug box and it was their TRUE and JUST opinions that got them banned, not their homicidal threats.