We can all – big companies included – agree that we need new rules. Even Nick Clegg, Facebook’s head of PR, argues that the boundaries for what major technology platforms can do must be decided through democratic politics.
But democracy can be manipulated by those who own the means of communication, and this is a masterful way for Facebook and others to pass the buck just as Coca Cola and IBM did before "it's not up to us to decide if killing Jews is legal, if Hitler says it's ok then we must abide by the law"
