I never said anything about getting paid, I said an exchange of value. You get the value of the service, and they get the value of all your personal information. An exchange of value is required for a contract (Terms Of Service) to be a valid legal document. It doesn't matter if you are a US tax payer, they benefit from US public systems and subsidies as they are based here.
What if you don't actually put your personal infos are they still getting the right value for their service?
In short you can still freely used it and in return your freedom is limited to their terms don't they have the rights to ban someone who they think that are harmful to their business? As far as I am concern that is how business works which very unethical tho but duh US based companies have the same ideology
What makes Facebook as pathetic here is that they are a US based company yet they are against the Freedom of Speech that a US citizen embodies.
Wait Jones were also banned from youtube or from the apple services that should mean something. If this guy really were able to promote violence and has some effects from its viewers then facebook might have done right in my opinion
You think it matters if you use a fake name? Do you use a fake name for your banking info? Your credit card? Your cellular phone? Do you think they don't have access to all of those things? They know your name is not Mike Hunt. This is racketeering, ie mob activity, illegally using a state sponsored monopoly as a proxy to do all the things the government legally can not do. I don't care if you believe it or not because functionally all the objectives are achieved regardless of your beliefs. I have been watching this process since before PRISM, Total Information Awareness, and Five Eyes were even a thing. This is an attempted overthrow of the USA as well as an attempt at a global power grab by these corporations and their backers, who coincidentally seem to be quite chummy with the Chinese state.
They claim the protections of a commons but they act as if a publisher curating content expecting to be liable for none of it like a publisher would be. They want to take advantage of all the wonderful infrastructure this nation has created and then use it as a tool to crush our freedoms. This is just the first phase, soon it will be you too as the global level Chinese style social credit system is rolled out in the open.
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All that deplatforming has nothing to do with they claimed reasons. If it did, they would be able to be transparent about it and show which posts violated which guidelines/ToS.
Wouldn't such a course of action pretty much have to be coming from the very top and be a company policy?
Otherwise a company would be quite to flag cases where the claimed reasons didn't add up with the facts and the guidelines/ToS.
The banning and suspending accounts (and removing of posts) appears to be authorized by fairly low level employees at both Facebook and Twitter. It is probably at least every week that a post is removed or a person is suspended under controversial circumstances, and when asked for comment by a major news organization the company says the action was done in error and reverses the decision. In 2017, a low level Twitter employee
banned Trump's twitter account until it was reversed 17 minutes later on his last day of work. It doesn't appear that either company has very strong internal controls in terms of making sure ban/removal actions are done in accordance with company policy.
This is just a cover story, AKA plausible deniability. This is an easy way for them to probe reactions and still escape liability as they simultaneously erode the response and alarm over the happenings. It is an ancient tactic. You create repeated false alarms to erode attentiveness then once apathy is conditioned you make the real move for the objective. It would be akin to a high level thief repeatedly setting off an alarm system over and over to breed inattentiveness over it being triggered in order to allow themselves to slip in undetected.