US regulators approve $5bn Facebook 'slap on the wrist'.

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I'm less interested in the Privacy, more interested in their control over free-speech and censoring certain political viewpoints that they deem unsuitable.

If Facebook didn't exist, the censorship that they could be argued to impose wouldn't be an issue . . .

. . . which might be a damned good thing.

 

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. . . The fact remains, whilst silicon valley holds a left-wing bias . . .

"Silicon Valley holds a left-wing bias" - Really? The valley itself, the companies based in Silicon Valley or the super-rich owners and decision-makers at those companies?

. . . The fact remains, silicon valley . . . censors speech . . .

Now you are getting silly, really silly.


Are you seriously suggesting that people in Silicon Valley should be "indoctrinated" to be right-wing and to allow any views, no matter how outrageous to be aired on their platforms . . . all in the interests of not pushing some people further to the right?

Are you seriously suggesting that the majority of people and companies in Silicon Valley (who you claim are all left-wing) are responsible for the rise of Agent Orange and lemming like, xenophobia driven lunacy that is Brexit?


Meanwhile, left-wing Facebook "allowed" Cambridge Analytica to go about their business of harvesting user data on millions of people without any interference.