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Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff

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It should say something that one party is against voting. Sadly it doesn’t seem to.

They're not against voting. They're against certain people voting.

A few years ago I would have agreed with you, but now they really do seem to be open to the idea of full dictatorship.

You know who else literally was open to the idea of full dictatorship?

Bowser?

Ganondorf?

Most of the people they want voting are already voting. They are against expanding voting.

A federal judge formally blocked North Carolina’s new voter identification law on Tuesday, ruling that discriminatory intent was likely a motivating factor in how the measure was crafted. The decision from US district judge Loretta Biggs could have big consequences in North Carolina, a key state in the 2020 presidential election that is scheduled to hold its presidential primary on 3 March. Donald Trump carried the state in 2016, but Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, won in 2016, by just over 10,000 votes. This week’s ruling was a blow to state Republicans, who overrode a veto from Cooper to enact the law last year. The measure came two years after North Carolina’s previous voter ID law was struck down as part of a host of voting restrictions a federal appeals court said targeted African Americans “with almost surgical precision”. African Americans make up about one-fifth of registered voters in North Carolina. Turnout among African Americans dropped six percentage points from 2012 to 2016.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/01/north-caroli...

Damned if you do/don’t

>The initiative, however, immediately drew the ire of the Trump campaign, which accused Facebook—without evidence—of secretly using the effort to help Biden.

Evidence does exist, so this statement is baffling. As recently as June content moderators on Facebook were covertly recorded bragging about being politically biased. [1]

The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump", and said "I think [all of the moderators] do that [delete posts for political reasons]".

Reading into the source (Campaign for Accountability), it's clear why they neglected to mention the evidence -- because they are politically biased themselves. [2]

[1] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/06/23/facebook_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Accountability

You have not presented any evidence that the voter registration initiative is secretly an effort to help the Biden campaign.

> The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump"

Well, they’re not. They have even carved out special exceptions to their content policy explicitly to prevent any punishment of Trump’s accounts even when he violates the policy.

To be fair, “anti-Trump” can mean (and probably means) bias against Trump supporters, not his accounts.

Isn't it the duty of the agency responsible for conducting elections that has to do this?

FB should be ignored and media should not promote these articles. Sure, they can help if they want, but the primary information source should be the nodal election agency.

Americans have been brainwashed to view the government as some sort of an evil lunatic preventing all of them from becoming billionaires. This is a dangerous narrative and will ultimately lead the nation to dictatorship, as is already happening.

So I shouldn't view the government as being some sort of evil lunatic, but it is already becoming a dictatorship?

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