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We should all be terrified and our government should do something. If it’s not too late already. Zuck funded democratic positions for the election, removed rel

We should all be terrified and our government should do something. If it’s not too late already. Zuck funded democratic positions for the election, removed relevant content to the election (hunter Biden laptop, senate intelligence report, etc), then banned the then sitting president. You can call his statements “incitement” but the context of the statements matter. It’s actually protected 1st amendment speech and he didn’t call for outright violence (to me it appeared to be trying to diffuse the crowd - because he said “remember this day, but go home in peace” - but again not relevant). we also need to call the riots the summer before burning part of the White House propriety an “insurrection”. Or when the cavanaugh hearing was broken into, etc. I’m not condoning any of it, the root concern and the point I’m trying to make, is that the government should be defining it, not some committee hand selected by a clearly bias person monitoring and controlling all our thoughts and communication channels.

kingsuper20 6y ago
>We should all be terrified and our government should do something. If it’s not too late already. Before the hivemind greys you out of existence... I'd agree that it's a real issue, the more pernicious problem being not censorship but the deep understanding of voters and the ability to (for instance) nudge an election in a desired way, but there's really not much new about this. Imagine the power that newspaper barons used to have 100 years ago. Practically the only information available to the public, hugely influential in their reach, filled with political bias, the Hearsts of the world could start or stop a war. People build such incredibly strong internal models, often tribal, atop a mere candyfloss of direct knowledge of a matter that someone will always take advantage of that attack vector. It's as if humans were designed to either be flagellants or part of a conquering army.

kingsuper20 6y ago

>We should all be terrified and our government should do something. If it’s not too late already. Before the hivemind greys you out of existence... I'd agree that it's a real issue, the more pernicious problem being not censorship but the deep understanding of voters and the ability to (for instance) nudge an election in a desired way, but there's really not much new about this. Imagine the power that newspaper barons used to have 100 years ago. Practically the only information available to the public, hugely influential in their reach, filled with political bias, the Hearsts of the world could start or stop a war. People build such incredibly strong internal models, often tribal, atop a mere candyfloss of direct knowledge of a matter that someone will always take advantage of that attack vector. It's as if humans were designed to either be flagellants or part of a conquering army.