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Free speech in the form of unlimited lobbying but don't let anyone dare look into their wasteful lifestyle.

• bamboozled 2y ago
  These people are the greatest hypocrites of our time. They want all the financial benefits of free speech and none of the negatives for themselves personally. Their platforms are basically foreign interference and misinformation backdoors into our society, they've done an insane amount of damage and this move by them, proves how problematic and invasive their own products actually are. However, for these people, they can just "turn off the problem" because they literally own the platform.
  • pessimizer 2y ago
    Meta consistently and aggressively censors on almost anyone's behalf. "X" will do it for anyone with any legal order, although they made a statement recently about Brazil that they ultimately backed down from once it was clear it was going to cost them a lot of money.
    • bamboozled 2y ago
      Is this supposed to be redeeming ? Are you saying they not only censor their own stuff but other stuff?
  • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
    > greatest hypocrites of our time. They want all the financial benefits of free speech and none of the negatives for themselves personally How? They're acting like typical plutocrats. Only nuance is they are hedging in case America does succumb to revolution and ensconce them (or their rivals) as the new aristocracy. Look at how Russia's oligarchs behaved when the Soviet Union fell and Moscow was trying democracy. Or hell, how politicians in the late Roman Republic and early Empire behaved. Lots of this sort of posturing and deflection, full in the knowledge that when democracies collapse--even flawed ones--you have elite-on-elite violence (as violence becomes a valid political tactic) amidst a massive rush of wealth upwards.
• whyenot 2y ago
  They are modern day robber barons.