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Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship

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If you write a book and I publish it and then due to public outcry, I stop publishing it. That is censorship.

No, it's not. I'm under no obligation to help you distribute your ideas, and I can change my mind whenever I please.

The book example is literally one of the most common examples of censorship used throughout history. You’re redefining it.

Re: Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship

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Prove to me the laptop is real.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-...

FBI has the laptop and only they can tell you. We know it contained real emails. There is enough evidence that I don't know what it would be besides real.

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I’m kind of shocked this isn’t a bigger story. - Right before a presidential election a major story breaks about a Presidential candidate - FBI jumps in to say “it’s Russian disinformation” - Story suppressed across the media including online as “disinformation” - After the election story turns out to be 100% true

And a nothing burger. Amazing how a Coke addict who failed upwards to get a cushy c suite job like many, is supposed to sway the election but the Trump family running a fraudulent university and a fraudulent charity, paying millions in fines, isn’t literally a disqualification.

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There is no net positive impact from social networking services, or indeed any other medium powered by advertising where the operators thereof have realized that hatred can be monetized. People have always disagreed with one another and clashed over political views... but only in the last 15 years have people been so polarized, and I think we can directly attribute it to conditioning as a direct result of participati…

Families around the world and across continents have been able to keep in touch due to social networks. For all the deserved hate, some good has come.

Sharing memes wasn't quite as satisfying as a long distance phone call.

Re: Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship

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No, it's not. I'm under no obligation to help you distribute your ideas, and I can change my mind whenever I please.

The book example is literally one of the most common examples of censorship used throughout history. You’re redefining it.

If someone, or the state, orders or pressures me to stop publishing against my will that is censorship.

If someone or a group convince me to change my mind and no longer publish, that is me exercising my free speech right.

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If your ISP decided to only transmit the string “jemmyw” 10% of the time, and blackhole the other 90% of jemmyw-containing packets, we would call that censorship. Facebook altered an algorithm to transmit a story to fewer people than it otherwise would have. It’s censorship.

If you try to say something to a 3rd person standing next to us and I shout you down, that is censorship. If I refuse to tell a 3rd person (not present) something you tell me, that is not censorship. I have no obligation to repeat your nonsense.

I don't recall Bell having this issue.

Re: Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship

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There is no net positive impact from social networking services, or indeed any other medium powered by advertising where the operators thereof have realized that hatred can be monetized. People have always disagreed with one another and clashed over political views... but only in the last 15 years have people been so polarized, and I think we can directly attribute it to conditioning as a direct result of participati…

Families around the world and across continents have been able to keep in touch due to social networks. For all the deserved hate, some good has come.

You don’t need a social network for that, just a messaging app. The idea that families would not be able to keep in touch without social media is absurd and obviously wrong.

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Rogan kept putting words in his mouth. He kept insinuating that Facebook and the FBI talked specifically about the Hunter Biden laptop story, when Zuckerberg did not say that at all. Zuckerberg said the FBI warned them to be on high alert for propaganda. Facebook's judgment after that conversation was that the Hunter Biden laptop story fit that profile. As for the story itself, I don't know all of the ins or outs, bu…

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Eh, I would not call Joe Biden the most powerful person in the world.

Re: Zuckerberg says FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship

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I’m kind of shocked this isn’t a bigger story. - Right before a presidential election a major story breaks about a Presidential candidate - FBI jumps in to say “it’s Russian disinformation” - Story suppressed across the media including online as “disinformation” - After the election story turns out to be 100% true

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