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tryauuum • today at 10:27 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

It feels like your treat the facebook as some common good, and censorship made by it thus preposterous, something which should be punished

But it's a multimillion dollar corporation in a foreign country, to me the idea they owe you something is strange

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Governments are still more powerful than corporations, this is why I am more afraid of the censorship of the internet by governments than of it by corporations


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vincnetas • today at 10:36 AM

"Governments are still more powerful than corporations" at this point i would not be so sure anymore. especially when some of corporations have full weight of us goverment behind them.

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BLKNSLVR • today at 11:44 AM

All the more reason to ban Meta. If Meta are actively taking sides in Brazilian elections, then the site _should_ be banned, even if it's temporary for the lead-up to the election.

Meta can do whatever they want, but so can a sovereign nation if they deem Meta was actively subverting their democratic process.

> Governments are still more powerful than corporations

Corporations aren't all equal. And Meta is one of the most unequal. Add to that the relationship with Trump's government, and your 'corporations' argument is meaningless.

If it were some other mutli-national that doesn't have its own massively popular news platform, I'd be much more likely to agree.

LtWorf • today at 11:27 AM

Facebook has to follow the law like everyone else… I know they don't like to but…

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