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Comment by bjeds

That it'd come to this is pretty obvious I think.

I mean, Facebook de-platformized a politician that 70+ million people voted for.

It doesn't really matter if they had the right or wrong reasons in doing this: the pool of disillusioned people just grew tremendously and I can't see anyone claiming otherwise.

Or did Facebook think that all of these 70+ million people would just sit back quietly and accept that their politician was blocked (or perceived of being censored)?

EDIT: Clarified the last sentence do to using the word "censored" incorrectly: thanks for pointing it out.

parent bjeds 5 years ago

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