Our Tech Lords in action again:
During this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that Facebook is increasingly trying to work with governments to determine what political speech it does and does not allow. Oh sorry, I mean: what kind of political ads it is willing to approve.
In the particular example Zuckerberg cited, in 2018, American pro-life groups wanted to run advertisements for Facebook users in Ireland. This is because the Irish were about to vote in a referendum on whether abortion should be legalized.
When Facebook saw the ad requests, the company contacted the Irish government asking whether this should or should not be allowed. “Their response at the time was, ‘we don’t currently have a law, so you need to make whatever decision you want to make.'”
In other words, Facebook could do as it pleased. There was no legal reason to disallow the ads. But what did Facebook do? You guessed it:
“We ended up not allowing the ads.”
This is extremely disturbing, but it’s very expected. Facebook’s top managers have a long history of leftist activism, and it’s clear from the company’s policies that they’re pushing their authoritarian leftist views on the company itself.
Go here to read the rest. The Tech Lords are our enemies.
Again, you a platform or are you a publisher? Strip them of their immunities.
There needs to be a class action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, Google to prohibit them from any form of censorship or at least define their rules for censoring. Example: One of the mainstays of their business is porn which is harmful to everyone. How can allow porn and not a pro-life ad? Something is seriously wrong.
Agree with both of you. Theses platforms seem to be untouchable like Worse Than Murder. Follow the money