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This week, a story broke how Hunter Biden had yet another laptop stolen from him, this time with videos of him doing "crazy sex acts". [0] Yet again, as in 202

This week, a story broke how Hunter Biden had yet another laptop stolen from him, this time with videos of him doing "crazy sex acts". [0] Yet again, as in 2020, I was unable to share the link below in a private Facebook Messenger group. What else will be censored next, at the behest of the government? I severely mistrust when the government tells you what and who to believe, and that includes our schools. Teach critical thinking, logic and fallacies, and leave it there - the students can make up their own minds. [0] https://nypost.com/2021/08/11/video-reportedly-shows-nude-hunter-biden-saying-another-laptop-with-crazy-sex-acts-was-stolen-from-him/ https://nypost.com/2021/08/11/video-reportedly-shows-nude-hu...

viggity 5y ago
I'm sure you know this, but you're only being downvoted because they think you're making shit up. I, unfortunately know that you are not making this shit up.
- s5300 5y ago
  You know that the government has Facebook's internal codebase backdoored and are able to push out new commits, and that they are explicitly doing so to censor the messenger system? Wow, you could probably get a Pulitzer
  - ameminator 5y ago
    They don't need access to the codebase to influence Facebook to censor information. You could just ask the social media companies to "block misinformation". There are sources in this thread showing the government admitting to doing that.
  - viggity 5y ago
    fwiw, I thought I was replying to the comment one level up from the one that I did.
s5300 5y ago
>I was unable to share the link below in a private Facebook Messenger group. What else will be censored next, at the behest of the government? >Facebook Messenger group >the government Does. Not. Compute. Error However, I do applaud your silliness as "Facebook government" almost sounds slightly correct for some swath of people.
- jwond 5y ago
  The Biden administration has openly admitted that they are working with Facebook to fight “disinformation”. https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administrations-admission-theyre-flagging-content-facebook-sparks-furor-1610257 https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administrations-admission-the...
- ameminator 5y ago
  I don't think it's silliness; I actually find it quite concerning. In recent times, there has been lots of evidence about how the government and social media companies have been colluding together to "prevent the spread of misinformation" [0]. They have been very transparent about this, and discuss it openly [1]. However, it must not be up to the government to determine what is or is not misinformation - this transposes to government censorship in the worst case, and prevents a healthy marketplace of ideas in the best case. In the case of the "Hunter Biden Laptop" story (which was misrepresented often), it wasn't Facebook deciding on its own to censor it - it was at the behest of the government. You don't know what you don't know. What knowledge are you missing because it could never be shown, because it wasn't shown to you? In the last few years, I've seriously worried about this. I've had to diversify my media intake as an attempt to mitigate this, even when the reporting itself was of worse quality in non-standard media channels. (In many cases, I found it to be of higher quality, which was surprising). I would recommend the same to you, because, especially in this case, you won't know what you're missing unless you look for it. [0]https://reclaimthenet.org/fb-cdc-misinfo-collusion/ https://reclaimthenet.org/fb-cdc-misinfo-collusion/ [1]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/07/15/psaki_were_flagging_problematic_posts_for_facebook_that_spread_disinformation.html# https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/07/15/psaki_wer...!

viggity 5y ago

I'm sure you know this, but you're only being downvoted because they think you're making shit up. I, unfortunately know that you are not making this shit up.

s5300 5y ago
You know that the government has Facebook's internal codebase backdoored and are able to push out new commits, and that they are explicitly doing so to censor the messenger system? Wow, you could probably get a Pulitzer
- ameminator 5y ago
  They don't need access to the codebase to influence Facebook to censor information. You could just ask the social media companies to "block misinformation". There are sources in this thread showing the government admitting to doing that.
- viggity 5y ago
  fwiw, I thought I was replying to the comment one level up from the one that I did.

s5300 5y ago

>I was unable to share the link below in a private Facebook Messenger group. What else will be censored next, at the behest of the government? >Facebook Messenger group >the government Does. Not. Compute. Error However, I do applaud your silliness as "Facebook government" almost sounds slightly correct for some swath of people.

jwond 5y ago
The Biden administration has openly admitted that they are working with Facebook to fight “disinformation”. https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administrations-admission-theyre-flagging-content-facebook-sparks-furor-1610257 https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administrations-admission-the...
ameminator 5y ago
I don't think it's silliness; I actually find it quite concerning. In recent times, there has been lots of evidence about how the government and social media companies have been colluding together to "prevent the spread of misinformation" [0]. They have been very transparent about this, and discuss it openly [1]. However, it must not be up to the government to determine what is or is not misinformation - this transposes to government censorship in the worst case, and prevents a healthy marketplace of ideas in the best case. In the case of the "Hunter Biden Laptop" story (which was misrepresented often), it wasn't Facebook deciding on its own to censor it - it was at the behest of the government. You don't know what you don't know. What knowledge are you missing because it could never be shown, because it wasn't shown to you? In the last few years, I've seriously worried about this. I've had to diversify my media intake as an attempt to mitigate this, even when the reporting itself was of worse quality in non-standard media channels. (In many cases, I found it to be of higher quality, which was surprising). I would recommend the same to you, because, especially in this case, you won't know what you're missing unless you look for it. [0]https://reclaimthenet.org/fb-cdc-misinfo-collusion/ https://reclaimthenet.org/fb-cdc-misinfo-collusion/ [1]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/07/15/psaki_were_flagging_problematic_posts_for_facebook_that_spread_disinformation.html# https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/07/15/psaki_wer...!