During a major address at Georgetown University on Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg kept hammering the same point: connecting people (on Facebook) and elevating their voices is good for society. Compromising on this (on Facebook), he argued, would stifle their free speech, which would be bad for society. “Our mutual commitment to each other—that we hold each others’ right to express our views and be heard above our own desire to always get the outcomes we want—is how we make progress together,” he said. The Facebook CEO made almost no effort to show how, in its 15 years of existence, Facebook actually helps. “In the face of these tensions…a popular impulse is to pull back from free expression.

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