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It's how it starts though, with an easy target...

when say 3 years from now, you can't criticize FB for their known co-operation with the surveillance programs of the government without having your content automatically detected and removed, you might have a different view.

This is only because of FB's refusal to let you more easily control what is seen on your feed. You controlling the feed settings would remove FBs power over eyeballs.

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> when say 3 years from now, you can't criticize FB for their known co-operation with the surveillance programs of the government without having your content automatically detected and removed, you might have a different view.

If that were to happen, then you would take your criticism to a different platform or your own domain. Facebook isn't the Web let alone the Internet.

Come on. First they came for the Nazis?

My point is, this is only an issue because FB wants you to continue to cede the power over your feed ( your attention) to them.

No one on my feed, of any group or any friends, are holocaust deniers.

So I would never see any such content, if my feed was fully under my control, correct?

That's fair enough. If FB was purely what it originally was - showing updates from your own connections exclusively - then of course a measure like this would be nonsensical. Only people who were directly connected to people posting it would ever see it (and many such people would be beyond hope anyway) and there would be no need to stop any kind of content "propagating" since no content ever would.

Considering how casually the word "Nazi" is thrown around these days, perhaps that should indeed be a matter of concern.

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