Yeah, that darn freedom of speech is so dangerous when you allow too much of it:
Meanwhile, Facebook is talking with potential Chinese partners about entering the huge China market, where the government has been cracking down on dissidents. That crackdown has come in response to the uprisings shaking authoritarian Middle Eastern regimes, movements that have used U.S.-based social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter as organizing tools.
"Maybe we will block content in some countries, but not others," Adam Conner, a Facebook lobbyist, told the Journal. "We are occasionally held in uncomfortable positions because now we're allowing too much, maybe, free speech in countries that haven't experienced it before," he said.
In many cases technology has been the friend of oppressed people, not an instrument of their oppression as Orwell feared. But the tyrants never quit trying, especially when they have willing accomplices.
