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Her testimony seem designed to provide cover for increased viewpoint censorship on the facebook platform. Her explicit examples are "hate speech" by conservativ
by asabjorn 5y ago
Her testimony seem designed to provide cover for increased viewpoint censorship on the facebook platform. Her explicit examples are "hate speech" by conservative dissenters that cause people to disagree with narratives she agrees with.
Facebook has applied some of the most heavy-handed and widespread politically motivated censorship that the west has ever seen. If anything, increasing this censorship is likely to increase cronyism and division more than anything.
And their censorship has often not been correct in the past, when being wrong caused real damage. E.g. the now mainstream lab leak hypothesis was censored in a way that may have delayed a more effective response.
- shadilay 5y agoIt doesn't matter which side the censorship falls on. No one entity should have the power over the speech of millions. Break up facebook.
- asabjorn 5y agoThe people involved also cause me pause, and indicate she is not a moderate seeking measured change good for all viewpoints. Her lawyer is Andrew P. Bakaj, an attorney and former intelligence officer with the Central Intelligence Agency. He was the principal attorney representing the whistleblower who filed the initial complaint that led to the launch of multiple investigations by the United States Congress into the Trump–Ukraine scandal, the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, and, ultimately, the first Impeachment of Donald Trump. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_P._Bakaj https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_P._Bakaj