On 24 March 2014 21:12, SS <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 18:49 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > Indeed. Facebook, twitter and youtube are private entities, and you > > are (typically) a free user of their offering. They can make whatever > > rules they want, consistent with their legal and fiduciary > > responsibilities. > > By the same token, private individuals and private companies all come > under national or sometimes what is (laughably) called "international" > law. Entities who make and implement those laws (typically governments) > are free to impose whatever rules they want. And if they choose to crack > down on certain activities of certain private individuals or companies, > it can be seen in the same spirit of "freedom to make and impose rules" > that private companies enjoy. >
There was a similar debate regarding holocaust denial groups on Facebook a while back[1]. Perhaps given a critical mass of members and enough funding, they might become as bad as Al Qaeda but they are fairly benign in comparison AFAIK. Anti-vaccination groups are perhaps the most dangerous of all of these, and I hope they are stopped from organizing and spreading their idiocy [2]. Kiran [1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/may/11/facebook-holocaust-denial [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/nyregion/measles-outbreak-in-new-york-may-have-spread-in-medical-facilities.html?_r=0
