Now, you may agree with what the president says here. You may disagree. You may have no opinion at all. But that doesn’t matter. It’s not up to you. It’s up to your moral, ethical, and intellectual betters at Facebook. They should be the ones who decide what information you get, because you might get information you can’t handle. You can’t be trusted to read stuff you might interpret the wrong way. You might start getting ideas you shouldn’t have. You need a gatekeeper. That used to be the role of the mainstream media, such as newspapers and network TV and whatnot. Now it’s Facebook.
And they know it. Here’s one such reaction from a Facebook engineer:
Free speech is too important to leave in the hands of the people. If Mark Zuckerberg refuses to tell you what to think, that’s all the proof you need that he’s a fascist!
(Okay, that’s enough of that. Trying to think like these idiots gives me a headache even at the best of times…)
https://outline.com/ZCuRdJ
And they know it. Here’s one such reaction from a Facebook engineer:
Who better to tell you what the truth is, and isn’t, than a 20-something software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area?Facebook's inaction in taking down Trump's post inciting violence makes me ashamed to work here. I absolutely disagree with it. I enjoy the technical parts of my job and working alongside smart/kind people, but this isn't right. Silence is complicity.
— Lauren Tan (@sugarpirate_) May 29, 2020
Free speech is too important to leave in the hands of the people. If Mark Zuckerberg refuses to tell you what to think, that’s all the proof you need that he’s a fascist!
(Okay, that’s enough of that. Trying to think like these idiots gives me a headache even at the best of times…)
https://outline.com/ZCuRdJ