Over the past week, Facebook and Twitter codified two classes of free speech

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Over the past week, Facebook and Twitter codified two classes of free speech — one set of rules for politicians and "world leaders,” and another for the rest of us, Axios' Scott Rosenberg writes for our series, "Misinformation age."

Why it matters: Social media platforms are privately owned spaces that have absorbed a huge chunk of our public sphere. The rules they're now hashing out will shape the information climate around elections for years to come.

Why now? President Trump's campaign placed ads this month that made false statements about Joe Biden.
Biden's campaign asked media outlets and digital platforms to stop running the ads. CNN took them down; Facebook kept them up.

Then Sen. Elizabeth Warren provoked Facebook with a deliberately misleading Facebook ad that claimed the company had endorsed Trump — before admitting that was a ruse to expose flaws in Facebook's policy.

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1. Bootlickers for oligarchy

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2. "Free speech"

There is no free speech when it comes to private platforms like twitter, facebook, youtube and any other social media. In fact, the term "free speech" itself has no meaning in the private arena. If one must find a proper definition for the term in the social media world, the best definition is that "free speech" is whatever the owner feels will further his own interests which, zuckerberg and his ilk have repeatedly demonstrated, consists solely on fattening their wallets.

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3. I think it would be nice to not be able to "Share" political links unless the source was known?

That should not be that difficult to program.

In order to "share" a link, the origin of the ad must also be shared.

I think that might clear up a lot of the confusion around the "free speech" issue.

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4. The prohibition on restraints on free speech only applies to government action

Codificaiton is something that congress or other legislative bodies do. Neither facebook, nor twitter, are legislative bodies. Finally, Twitter's rules regarding politicians were rolled out several months ago.

3 errors in the first two sentences. I'm not sure even Trump can beat that!