Big Tech Continued Censorship
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I don't want to watch a 15 minute video full of blather.
I think we just need to resign ourselves to the fact that tech companies are full of sht and not to be trusted.
I think we just need to resign ourselves to the fact that tech companies are full of sht and not to be trusted.
For those of us who have been fighting the free speech wars for years, this feels like a major victory and turning point.
Thank you President Trump for creating this political and cultural realignment. Any other man would have been destroyed by the prosecution and persecution directed at you, your family, and your businesses. You triumphed.
Thank you Elon Musk for charging into the breach when free speech was at its lowest ebb. You defied the global censorship machine, proved Community Notes worked, and gave us the Twitter Files.
Thank you Zuck and Meta for recognizing that the censorship had gone too far, and seizing the opportunity to make a course correction. I do believe you are getting back to your roots.
Will the rest of Big Tech follow suit? It’s time.
Zuckerberg Ending Censorship on Facebook: "The Fact-Checkers Have Just Been Too Politically Biased"
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg announced new rules surrounding content moderation and censorship on Facebook and Instagram. After years of strict "trust and safety" policies, Zuckerberg says, "we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship."
"We’re gonna get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms," he said.
Meta Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan adds: "We want to undo the mission creep that has made our rules too restrictive and too prone to over-enforcement. We’re getting rid of a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity and gender that are the subject of frequent political discourse and debate. It’s not right that things can be said on TV or the floor of Congress, but not on our platforms."
As Dana Loesch said last night, Zuck is just trying to stay 'alive' (relevant?) the next four years.
Zuck is FOS.
FB: "Impersonating a celebrity to scam users out of money does not violate our TOS."
FB: "Advertisers posting clickbait that links to malware does not violate our TOS."
FB: "Kiddie porn does not violate our TOS."
Also FB: "Saying Biden didn't really win the 2020 election violates our TOS and you are banned for 3 days."
^^ Those are real life examples that I personally experienced. ^^
His platform is dying because he and his merry band of censors killed it. At some point you have to believe FB is in cahoots with the scammers and sex traffickers because when you report those accounts/posts FB always comes back all, "Mmmm....nah....doesn't violate our TOS." But if you post anything that goes against the progbot covid narrative or suggests the 2020 election was rigged, you WILL be sat out.
FB: "Impersonating a celebrity to scam users out of money does not violate our TOS."
FB: "Advertisers posting clickbait that links to malware does not violate our TOS."
FB: "Kiddie porn does not violate our TOS."
Also FB: "Saying Biden didn't really win the 2020 election violates our TOS and you are banned for 3 days."
^^ Those are real life examples that I personally experienced. ^^
His platform is dying because he and his merry band of censors killed it. At some point you have to believe FB is in cahoots with the scammers and sex traffickers because when you report those accounts/posts FB always comes back all, "Mmmm....nah....doesn't violate our TOS." But if you post anything that goes against the progbot covid narrative or suggests the 2020 election was rigged, you WILL be sat out.
They’re fired. Yesterday, Wired ran a surprising free-speech story headlined, “Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them.” In other words, Facebook fired the fact-checkers, effective immediately, without notice, no severance. They’re done. The sub-headline explained, “Fact-checkers claim they had no idea the company was going to end their partnerships and are scrambling to figure out the financial implications of the move.”
CLIP: Zuck throws fact-checkers and the USG under the bus for pandemic censorship (5:17).
The financial implications? How about the much more significant implication that elections have consequences? A flurry of front-page news landed in corporate media yesterday after Meta (Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted an astonishing mea culpa, a hostage-style video with an enthusiastic promise to make free expression the firm’s first priority.
“It’s time to get back to our roots…the importance of protecting free expression,” Mr. Zuckerberg began, as the space-time continuum rocked on its fourth dimensional foundations. The Facebook chief continued, “We built a lot of complex moderation systems that make mistakes. (But) the recent election feels like a cultural tipping point. So we’re going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, like X.”
Buh bye, hated fact checkers! Check your financial implications, you buzzards.
Try imagining the horror progressives must have felt, watching their carefully collated worlds collapse. In 2020 Zuckerberg sent $400 million to county election supervisors and gamed Facebook’s algorithms to help elect Joe Biden. But yesterday he signaled surrender. He does not want to fight. He wants to survive.
In other words, it looks like the left just lost another influential billionaire.
The CEO pretty much admitted that Facebook censorship was wrong: “What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and people with different ideas, and it’s gone too far.”
Facebook has long outsourced “fact-checking” to progressive non-profits and politically connected companies, so that Facebook could innocently claim to be hands-off and unbiased. But now, suddenly, Facebook is replacing its expensive fact-checking contractors with free, user-driven self-policing. For good measure, insulting them on the way out the door, Zuckerberg threw the fact-checkers under the bus, saying “The fact-checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, so we’re going to phase in a community notes system.”
He vowed to lift the heavy hand of censorship off hot political topics and in doing so, admitted that conservative takes on illegal alien rapists and transsexual deviants are the mainstream, not just the far-right. “We’re going to simplify our content policies,” he explained, “and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch of mainstream discourse.”
The pendulum has swung, and the balance has tipped toward freedom of expression. “We’re going to catch less bad stuff,” he admitted, “but it will reduce the number of innocent people’s posts we take down.”
Mr. Zuckerberg’s next promise was perhaps most surprising. Hearing it, one imagines a conversation between Zuckerberg and a certain President-Elect, since this sounds exactly like one of his ideas. Get this: “We’re going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US-based content review will be based in Texas, where there’s less concern about the bias of our teams.”
It’s more capital flight from California. Silicon Valley’s digital footprint is shrinking.
As he wrapped up what most resembled a coerced confession, Mr. Zuckerberg pinned the blame directly on the Biden Administration, not just for making Facebook censor Americans, but even for worldwide censorship. He said, “Over the past four years, the US government has pushed for censorship,” which “has emboldened other governments to go even farther. But now,” the CEO continued, “we have the opportunity to restore free expression.”
He meant we have an opportunity to restore free expression everywhere.
The social media billionaire ended by giving the credit where it was due, and teasing a rescue effort aimed at our British cousins: “We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more in Europe.”
“In Europe” sounds a lot like in Great Britain, where sneering élites in London are busily jailing citizens for exposing or even talking about the élites covering for pedophile rape gangs.
Help is coming soon.
British compatriots: If you can’t complain about the rape gangs without risking jail, don’t risk jail. Move one step lower down the tree to start cutting. Complain instead about the rule that prevents you from complaining about the you-know-what, and never stop complaining about the rule until they go mental. In other words, first kill the censorship rule.
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Fact-checking is under attack. As Twitchy reported Tuesday, the International Fact-Checking Network convened an emergency meeting after Meta's Mark Zuckerberg announced that it was breaking up with Politifact and moving to a system mirroring X's Community Notes. CNN senior media analyst Brian Stelter called it Facebook's "MAGA makeover."
Stelter had more to say on the air Wednesday about this new attack on fact-checking.
yeah ofc Stelter didn't realize he was fired FOR BEING A PARTISAN HACK