The censorship wars
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2025 11:25 am
Now days, countries want to have censorship groups in place on social media that they can control to block what it doesn't like. If a country doesn't like any particular media platform it just blocks it. Like, you can't see bloggers like Glenn Greenwald who broadcasts on Rumble in much of Europe because Rumble is blocked. The US, even with a first amendment, is scheduled to block Tick Toc in the US because some Chinese guy in Bangkok is the CEO and they are afraid they can't reliably control the medium.
Zuckerberg, who largely owns and nominally controls Facebook, admitted to being made to censor posts the last administration wanted blocked and now he recently, apologetically, ended Facebooks political censorship squad that had, along with banning lots of other people and comments, banned Trump before he regained Presidential status. However, I just saw this notice on Facebook in my message stream. Smoke and mirrors? Seems to me it is just another way around the corporate anchored censorship to broader censorship by the forces of control outside of an office on Facebook. The internal facebook censor that will now decide what is helpful or not is the part that makes it a all a hoax and only hides the fact that somebody unnamed still controls the dialog.
Zuckerberg, who largely owns and nominally controls Facebook, admitted to being made to censor posts the last administration wanted blocked and now he recently, apologetically, ended Facebooks political censorship squad that had, along with banning lots of other people and comments, banned Trump before he regained Presidential status. However, I just saw this notice on Facebook in my message stream. Smoke and mirrors? Seems to me it is just another way around the corporate anchored censorship to broader censorship by the forces of control outside of an office on Facebook. The internal facebook censor that will now decide what is helpful or not is the part that makes it a all a hoax and only hides the fact that somebody unnamed still controls the dialog.
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