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They already have a policy to ban accounts that incite violence. (Which might have happened, the article doesn't say..)

>"Information" that's not only going to get people killed but also is factually wrong is definitely fair game IMO.

We don't want an advertising company in a capitalist society deciding that. That's the whole point.

We don't want an advertising company in a capitalist society deciding that.

Everyone has the responsibility to decide that! Their platform, their responsibility.

This is actually an extremely gray legal area. The only reason platforms are viable is because they have legal protections that don't make them responsible for user content.

At some level of "taken responsibility" (which I think should have been passed), they should be considered publishers and be stripped of their legal protections.

Okay? Then consider my comment as a protest.

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