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It’s a sad state of affairs when the Washington Post is advocating censorship of wrongthink. One might even call it double plus sad... I don’t even want to was
by chatmasta 8y ago
It’s a sad state of affairs when the Washington Post is advocating censorship of wrongthink. One might even call it double plus sad...
I don’t even want to waste the energy on explaining all the potential pitfalls of a corporate entity (or anyone!) acting as judge, jury and executioner of censorship. Maybe we all need to re-read Fahrenheit 451, 1984, etc...
- fenwick67 8y agoFacebook curating posts is very different from the government regulating information.
- frabbit 8y agoIt`s different, but if they`re the information channel used by the majority of people then it has the same effect.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoRight -- it's done without transparency or due process.
- qubax 8y ago> It’s a sad state of affairs when the Washington Post is advocating censorship of wrongthink. They've been advocating for censorship for a while now. They along with the NYTimes and CNN are the main proponents of censorship. They've successfully lobbied to get google search, youtube, facebook, reddit, etc censored or "curated" to their liking. It's why google news now has tons of washingtonpost stories everyday whereas 10 years ago, they showed up regularly but not to today's spam-level. If you want to be shocked, use web archives and see how google news changed. If you google anything now, google will pretty much return news mostly articles. Even recipes and movies returns news links. Growing up, I was misled into believing that the news industry and liberals were for free speech. Today, it's the news industry and liberals who are demanding censorship everywhere.
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