Facebook! Thanks a lot.
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You think China is an asshole?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/facebook-covid-19-origins-wuhan-jonathan-turley
Turley:
Facebook says mentions of COVID-19's possible origins in Wuhan are now allowed. How generous
Read the headline above a couple times. There was a time when such a headline would only appear on the satirical outlet The Onion but it is actually true.
Facebook has long banned anyone who discussed the evidence that a worldwide pandemic killing millions and destroying the global economy may have been released from a government lab in Wuhan, China.
Facebook would not allow the theory to be discussed as "debunked" despite widespread criticism that the social media giant was, again, engaging in corporate censorship.
The false claim that this theory was "debunked" was pushed by various media platforms as part of the criticism of then-President Donald Trump and his administration.
Now, however, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, and others have acknowledged that there is a basis for suspect the lab as the origin of the outbreak. So now Facebook will allow you to talk about it.
Since February, Facebook has been banning posts claiming the virus was man-made or manufactured "following consultations with leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization" who had "debunked" the claim. It was ridiculed at the time as entirely divorced from actual science. While the theory was not proven, it was never disproven.
Now, Facebook has declared "In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that COVID-19 is man-made from our apps. We’re continuing to work with health experts to keep pace with the evolving nature of the pandemic and regularly update our policies as new facts and trends emerge."
Putting aside the lack of a basis for the earlier ban, the statement reflects that assumption that, of course, Facebook should be the arbiter of what can be discussed by users.
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@george-k said in Facebook! Thanks a lot.:
Putting aside the lack of a basis for the earlier ban, the statement reflects that assumption that, of course, Facebook should be the arbiter of what can be discussed by users.
Of course, Facebook is not ultimately the arbiter here. The arbiter is progressive pop culture, which puts a gun to Facebook's economic head, along with every other huge company. All those companies make the pragmatic decision to think and say and enforce exactly what the cancelation mob commands them to. America lives under the authoritarian ideological rule of the left and their indoctrinated masses. This all goes on in the plain sight of left-leaning, well-meaning people, but they're way too concerned with orange menaces to be aware of anything else. It's sad.
