I don't have a Facebook account to delete. This does not protect me from Facebook being used to mobilize the information deficient to vote to destroy the society I live in, or, in the worst case, protect me from Facebook being used to mobilize a lynch mob to kill me as a target-of-the-day. Individual actions, like not having a Facebook account, are not solutions to collective problems.
There is no inherent right to incite the destruction of society. That precedent was set when when the people behind Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines were sent to the Hague for crimes against humanity.
> This does not protect me from Facebook being used to mobilize the information deficient to vote to destroy the society I live in
The problem is that there are other people with polar differences in politics from you who also think that the society they live in is being destroyed, for the exact opposite reasons. Facebook should just butt out and let people have their own conversations; they should have no role in curating or doing anything about what people are saying as long as it's not absolutely illegal.
If you don't like it, then you've already made your choice to not have an account. Find some other outlet for your activism if you're so worried that society is being destroyed.
There is a very real difference between disagreeing over how to interpret actual reality (e.g. disagreeing over what is an acceptable level of income inequality in society) and disagreeing over manufactured issues created by feeding lies to people to make them fear for their society because of threats that do not exist.
There was no legitimate argument over whether pre-Brexit UK was on the verge of being invaded by Syrian terrorists, whether Obama is an American citizen, or whether there were 'caravans' of migrant-criminals approaching the US-Mexico border. These entire concepts, and the 'polar differences' they created, were entirely fraudulent inventions that Facebook was used to fabricate.
This is the face of the political use of Facebook, and for that it should be shut down.
There is no inherent right to incite the destruction of society. That precedent was set when when the people behind Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines were sent to the Hague for crimes against humanity.