More mental gymnastics and gyrations to justify muzzling the opposing narrative.
People are looking to generally open communications platforms like Facebook and asking them to censor, but if they carried their logic to its conclusion, the President’s emails, texts, mobile Apps, and press releases should all be censored or blacklisted by communications providers.
If the president sent out content similar to his tweets through a Trump 2020 campaign app on the apple store and android store, should Apple / google remove the app from the store? Should they build in a filter in chrome and Safari to block access to the trump 2020 campaign website?
Where does this logically end?
Personally since I disagree with the 40% I do see it as the “real problem” but I don’t think facebook censoring them is the solution. It might be possible to censor away InfoWars or whatever but I don’t think you can censor away the POTUS and 40% of the country...
Not a MAGA type by the way. I’ve voted against trump in 3 elections already and will be voting against him again in the fall.
What was PC today may not be PC tomorrow depending on dynamics.
They don’t understand the same forces they want to use to muzzle someone today can become the force that muzzles them tomorrow.
They like Jack censoring twitter only because he aligns with them. They don’t like Mark right now because he doesn’t 100% align with them.
They don’t care one whit about data retention and third party selling, etc. all they care about is “are you aligned with my narrative today?”
This is why Free Speech is so important. Regardless of how inappropriate someone's speech is, or may seem in the present context, they should be allowed to express it as long as they are not directly inciting violence/hate. Not all countries have this Right so let's take a second to appreciate that.