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Facebook is a corporation and as such, is not required to give a damn about anything happening in Macedonia.



That's so blindingly obvious that it makes one wonder about the motivation behind posting it. My current assumption is sheer trollery, but I'll reply anyway.

Yes, it's true that no laws were broken. The fact that Facebook is a corporation doesn't make them exempt from moral and ethical expectations people have. For example, if a large corporation finds a loophole in some law and exploits it to detriment of a significant number of people, you would get similar outcry from those people as we're getting from Macedonians right now.

In short, a blindingly obvious reply to a blindingly obvious statement: Just because no law was broken, it doesn't make what Facebook did good or right.


And yet, people still complain about "how could they do this? oh, the humanity!"

Which is obviously human nature. But no less annoying than my response.

So, do something about it being obvious. Advocate for a change. Instead of yelling "how could they do this?!", yell "We will make them change the policy and here's how and here's why!"

Then you've got something worth responding to in a public debate.


In which case it's odd that they would actively start deleting pages for some relatively minor (5000 people? Who cares?) protest movement going on there.

So I still think we're missing an important part of this story somewhere.




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