We let ours run rampant way too long.
via tomknighton:
Facebook is one of those things that many of us have and use daily, but we don’t really like it. That’s in part because Fecesbook has been a leftist cesspool for years now, eagerly bowing down to the left out of either desire to suck up or just a fear of regulation. In the end, it doesn’t matter which.
But this isn’t so much about Facebook. It’s about the government and its desire to control what we can and can’t say.
This is from my friend Hannah Cox over at BASEDPolitics:
Government isn’t good at much other than covering up its own tracks. And when it comes to COVID-19’s origins, it appears all hands were on deck to obfuscate US involvement and tax dollars in the Wuhan lab.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “Internal Meta emails say pressure from Washington was behind a decision to take down posts attributing [the] pandemic to [a] man-made virus.”
Facebook complied with the requests and removed content by users, aka censored the free speech of the American public, that presented evidence of a lab leak theory.
“Can someone quickly remind me why we were removing—rather than demoting/labeling—claims that Covid is man made,” Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president of global affairs, wrote in a July 2021 email to his colleagues.
“We were under pressure from the administration and others to do more,” Facebook’s vice president of content policy responded. “We shouldn’t have done it.”
So Facebook didn’t want to do it, they were pressured by the government to do it.
Yet let’s understand that there’s a lot of evidence now available that COVID was, in fact, manmade. Oh, I don’t think it’s a weapon or anything, but gain-of-function research was taking place in that lab and it was taking place on coronaviruses. The lab leak theory has always been plausible.
h/t SH