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Are you referring to the firehose of covid misinformation spewed out of Facebook, or some other grift?

To be clear I wasn't blaming just the Gov't for all the censorship, because 99% of Facebook employees (including Zuck himself) were strongly in favor of censoring all conservative viewpoints, as well, and were in lock-step with Big Gov't controlling speech.

Zuck recently tried to blame it all on the FEDs (on JRE podcast) but he was obviously lying because Facebook even built a special portal for the FEDs to log into, for moderating/controlling the public, so he was the ring-leader of all the censorship, for about a decade.

And yet Twitter is censoring progressive viewpoints and even skewed the algo toward promoting a certain political candidate and yet not a single word from those free speech warriors.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/24298669/musk-trump-endo...

I'm generally in favor of Free Speech, but after Silicon Valley censored conservatives for a decade, during the entire Cancel Culture era, I think for them (liberals) to get to experience what it feels like to be censored themselves is probably a good thing. A good learning experience for them to begin to understand first hand how it feels, and what they did to others, without remorse, and with ill intent, for a decade.

So I say to all liberals complaining about Twitter censorship: "Turnabout is fair play" and "You deserve it, because you invented it."

"Yes, yes, that will show them... Fair play." In the background, the country burning.

Every Democrat in the DC Swamp is quaking in their boots right now out of fear that the Republicans might do to them what they did to the Republicans. They expect it to happen, because being so revenge-oriented themselves, they know it's what they'd do.

The difference is that, unlike liberals, Conservatives (especially MAGA) are God-fearing law-and-order abiding people, not motivated by hate, and not the evildoers that they were falsely accused of being, by the insane left and their Senile POTUS, for the past 8 years.

So don't worry, Democrats have nothing to fear but the exposing of their hypocrisy, and more loss of reputation as more truths come out.

my God what social media does to people to write and believe stuff like this… hopefully one day everything will be banned… amazing to read this - just amazing what seemingly normal human being can be made into believing!

Aw, Silicon Valley doesn't want everything banned. They just want all ideas that go against their world view banned. lol.

99% of Facebook employees (including Zuck himself) were strongly in favor of censoring all conservative viewpoints, as well, and were in lock-step with Big Gov't controlling speech.

how can you write this with the straight face when top like 100 accounts spreading shit on Facebook are right-wing nutcases. Give me on popular left-wing nutcase on Facebook?! believing that conservative views on any social media platform were ever being supressed is downright craaaaazy :)

Sorry dude. Nobody believes any of that in 2025. The claim that conservatives weren't being singled out on Social Media is laughable nowadays. All the companies have ADMITTED doing it. The Gov't has ADMITTED doing it.

I mean, conservatives were getting censored/attacked even for true things like saying COVID might have leaked from a lab, that there are only two sexes, that Hunter Laptop was real, that FBI lied on FISA warrant, that people meds are have horse-versions of them, Biden is senile, and on and on and on for countless other things.

kind of cool seeing where you are getting your “information” :) godspeed with all that!

Even CNN/MSM admits all of this nowadays, and you know it, but won't admit it.

That’s the bulk of the “justifiable” censorship but if you dig into the [largely overrated] “Twitter files,” sometimes they even got mad about jokes.

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