Why Mark Zuckerberg Should Have Told Conservatives To Screw Off

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It may not be a popular sentiment, but Reason is right. Facebook is a private business and legislators and politicians have zero business trying to be their editorial board. They have every right to control the content in the same way we do, or Huffington Post does, or Reason does.

Immediately upon publication of an anonymously sourced Gizmodo story claimed that right-wing news sources were suppressed at Facebook, conservatives went into full mau-mau mode, attacking founder Mark Zuckerberg as a doctrinaire lefty whose social-media platform was obviously guilty of censoring viewpoints with which he and his minions disagree.

Far worse, conservative Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota quickly issued a

    letter calling Zuckerberg on the carpet "pursuant…to the authority" of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Facebook had until "no later than May 26, 2016" to explain how it conducts its business. "In addition," wrote Thune, widely admired in conservative circles and constantly touted as presidential material, "please arrange for your staff, including employees responsible for the Trending Topics, to brief Committee staff on this issue."

Holy hell! A conservative politician demanding that a private business shlep to D.C. to spill its standard-operating procedures? It's the world turned upside down, now, isn't it? I thought only leftard Sandersnistas and Hillarybots acted in such ways!.....

http://reason.com/blog/2016/05/19/why-mark-zuckerberg-should-have-told-con

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It may not be a popular sentiment, but Reason is right. Facebook is a private business and legislators and politicians have zero business trying to be their editorial board. They have every right to control the content in the same way we do, or Huffington Post does, or Reason does.

This is the Trump effect.  Ordinarily rational people suddenly have massive chips on their shoulders and think they can muscle private businesses.  Hell, tonight, Trump was trashing Nabisco for moving a production facility to Mexico and telling the audience to boycott Oreos. Then he pointed to his punching bag, Chris Christie, and said "Chris, no more Oreos for you." 

The friggin' conservatives have gone crazy.