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I am not, facebook.com is not facebook's home, it's their place of business and it's "critical infrastructure" at this point. It's very different to your house. Zuckerberg and/or you can make rules for your respective actual residence(s) all you want. You have "editorial control" and the associated liability over who comes to your home and what happens in it. facebook.com does not. You will be thrown in prison when somebody uses your kitchen to plan violent attacks, facebook (or Zuckerberg) is not thrown in prison when somebody uses a facebook group to do the same.

I also do not agree that corporations are people, in general.



I won't address your other points except to point you here:

https://www.facebook.com/terms.php

Think of it as the "no shirt, no shoes, no service" rules of Facebook. And they are fully within their rights to have them.

Don't like it? There are ways to change the laws. Depending on what it is that you'd like changed, I'd likely support you.

>I also do not agree that corporations are people, in general.

Sadly (and I'm not being ironic), the law disagrees. See my above comment about changing the law.




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