One of the most encouraging articles I have read recently was on the Daily Wire. The presented topic was Zuckerberg saying that the Biden administration had pressured him to censor content on his plateforms. The nonsense factor was his claim that he did not cave in. All that is interesting but at least partially Fake News. What I found interesting was this quote from the letter he wrote,
“I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” he continued. “I also think we made some choices that. with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn’t make today. Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction — and we’re ready to push back if something like this happens again.”Why did I find this worthy of note? Notice the bit, “we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any Administration in either direction.” This is the kind of statement that he would make to justify telling the Trump Administration to go jump in a lake. He would not be saying this if he felt like the Democrats were going to be able to steal the election again. It would be business as usual.
It did not really bother him when he “compromised” content to oppose Trump. He wants to sound like he is on the side of the angels when he refuses to go the other way.
Maybe I am looking for a silver lining. Maybe I am in Fantasyland. Maybe not.
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Amen!
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