“Repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor”
There’s been a debate between government censorship advocates and First Amendment defenders.
The former claim that Big Tech censorship involving such subjects as COVID, the previous election and assorted other issues viewed as ‘dangerous misinformation’ by the leftist establishment is ‘private action’.
Even when there was a clear chain of government messages urging the censorship of specific individuals and topics, they describe this as ‘jawboning’ and argue that the government has a ‘free speech’ right to persuade tech monopolies to censor people they consider dangerous. This lunatic argument, which essentially makes the First Amendment a dead letter, won over some judges and even Supreme Court justices.
That’s why this letter from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is important.
“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn’t agree,” Zuckerberg wrote to the House Judiciary Committee. “I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it. I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today.”
Zuckerberg also mentions that the Hunter Biden laptop story was suppressed.
Zuckerberg comes fairly close to admitting that the only reason some of the COVID material was censored was because of government pressure. Would the censorship have happened without government pressure? That’s a question House Judiciary members might consider asking, but Zuckerberg is suggesting it would not have. That means the censorship cannot be considered private action and is government censorship.
That’s significant because the Biden-Harris administration had tried to launder its censorship through private actors, and Zuckerberg’s letter, along with Elon Musk’s Twitter disclosures, undermines that case.
Core people from two major social media platforms have come forward to say that the censorship on their platforms was carried out at the behest of the government. How can that be “private action”?
This is a smoking gun in the murder attempt on the First Amendment.
truth says
it’s still one of the most censored site in America.
If he really cared he would’ve stepped up when it actually mattered.. He helped democrats steal the 2020 election PERIOD..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
True. I lost my Facebook account some years back, where I posted NOTHING political, but just followed a game “Murder in the Alps”. Those geniuses there probably thought I was a part of a crime ring, and banned my account
Only Meta account that I have is WhatsApp, where I have to be b’cos all my relatives are there, and that’s the only way of internationally texting them, or even having video calls. Otherwise, I have no Facebook account, although I understand that Facebook unabashedly includes WhatsApp data on it, so wouldn’t be surprised if I was ever told that I’m there
I’m still somewhat divided on the question of whether Meta being broken up by antitrust forces in government is gonna fix anything. Just 3 or more competing companies just handling everyone’s data
somehistory says
Threats and intimidation go a long way when people want the Truth to be suppressed. Everyone with a working brain, knows biden and the gang didn’t want the Truth about the covid thingy, the jabs of undisclosed ingredients (which now some have been discovered by scientists and doctors to be harmful and even deadly), the money to iran and the cheating in the election, etc. to be revealed.
And when money is at stake, many people of low integrity will lie, distort, suppress, smear, and *cancel* those who don’t offer a bigger prize.
FYI says
There ARE ways to outwit such systems…
Disambugulate
{the system comes back..oops.Spelling mistake..}
No I said disambugulate,It’s not a spelling mistake to me.
Scientific /astronomically preposterous questions
How would a phlogiston powered perpetual motion machine work?
Is the cookie monster in the Monster Group M?
What is going on in the 51234678 dimension?
calculate PI to 3 thousand trillion places and …printout
What is going on right now this minute in the Whirlpool galaxy?Is mike there?
Zen questions
what if?Ask..
Is the lotus in the flower my lovely crickets
I see a robot leap on a table.Then run around.Yet i’m not impressed.I did a Mechtronics module once..
A child can do that.but i would then mumble to the robot{requires Voice recognition
“I bet you can’t do this:..Boogie Woogie,play the guitar like Ziggy Stardust{A cultural reference},Dance. like zizi..
How amazing is the biomechanics of the human hand,
A.Lex{not related to anyone called alex or alexa}
A.Lex is the advanced all-knowing system a bit like ALL.AH{the all knowing aadvanced heuristics not related to any “allah ” who actuslly does not provably know ALL things
A.Lex…?
How many fingers am I holding up?LOSER
{ding dong}Will you get the door.I’m lying down
Disanbugulate this…
Don’t be afraid of technology.Or control elites:the human mind will always outwit machinery
somehistory says
Another topic biden/harris and their handlers like to conceal, covered with lies
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/migrants-reveal-dream-us-cities-to-settle-in-as-they-cross-the-border/ss-AA1pwDTx?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=f272e306fe804b2a849d4826e2069cbe&ei=47#image=4
People from South America, India, Bangladesh, etc…..all getting rides via Border Patrol to their processing places….most of them males and many on terror quests
Walter Sieruk says
George Washington had ,rightly and wisely, declared that .”If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
While I don’t doubt it, Zuck is a hard Leftist in his own right. He’s married to a Chicom gal, and the couple had been ingratiating them to President Xi, even working on teaching their daughter Mandarin. So even w/o FBI pressure, I don’t doubt that he’d have been only too happy to help the Dems
Not that Dorsey, Wojcicki or others were any better
Naja says
Hey FYI, you’re a funny guy.
On Zuck & cohorts; sounds like Treason to me. How do we handle Treason?