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Hugo Rifkind: What is Facebook? 

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

issue 26 October 2013

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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