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Hugo Rifkind

Hugo Rifkind: What is Facebook? 

The beheadings furore shows we forget that social networks aren't public spaces — they're profit-seeking firms

26 October 2013

9:00 AM

26 October 2013

9:00 AM

I’d never noticed that there aren’t any tits on Facebook. The place always seems brimming with right tits to me. But no. According to this week’s mumbling bien-pensant scandal, the world’s largest social network has decided to allow newsy videos of murder and beheading and all the rest, but still not tits, and this is an outrage.

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