Companies like Facebook will go the way of Myspace. Censorship in a free society has never worked, such as the Drug War prohibition and the prohibition of 1919-33, when alcohol was outlawed, it only fueled crime. Created black markets, the Great Depression and World War 2. Funny sounds like that time period now, we are restricting media, the Internet, drugs. Prohibition comes in many forms, you can use the phase, over-regulation. So here we go again. Censoring the Internet is just another prohibition. It swings right and left but always comes back to the middle.
Not by fault of their own are they taking this path, by the fault of a country that has become rigid and paranoid of individual expression, freedoms, influence from the mainstream. Religion, government monopolies, an old institution that do not like new trends that steer people away from filling the oldie's institutional tradition of keeping the things always the same.
Zuckerberg stated when he first started the company, he wanted to give all in the world access to social media, and that is great, I agree with him. It is when and the world has become more sensitive and polarized to the fact that freedom is sensitive too, as is technology to elder generations. It has to do with understanding and accepting new technologies, new freedoms, letting people be who they want to be, the freedom to choose, express their ideas and show others their new freedoms. We should not suppress something that is not hurting no one. One day we will learn that the old stagnates the new in acceptance, but is only temporary, I think we call it the generation gaps.
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