Heh – social media teaches us we do not want to be able to read minds :)
Social media teaches us we do not want to be able to read people’s minds 🙂
More incentive for government censorship via proxy
More threats against BigTech will cause them to change how they run their businesses – and may be used by the government to encourage more de facto government censorship via proxy. “What would you like us to censor today?” they might ask.
Censoring video games
Illinois says they have too many carjackings and proposes the solution is to ban the Grand Theft Auto video gaming. Censorship is so 2021!
Facebook insisted its censorship policies were applied equally
Facebook CEO did, in fact, intercede in FB’s teams decisions regarding acceptable speech on Facebook. Now we get government censorship via proxy – and let billionaires decide what we are allowed to read, see or hear.
When you re-define the language, you can control the world
“Tear gas” and “Pepper spray” have been redefined by riot enthusiasts as “chemical munitions” and “chemical weapons” as they seek to ban the use of crowd control measures by police, when employed at “mostly peaceful protests”. Changing the language is one of the first steps taken in a propaganda campaign. Language redefinition goes on all the time, and lately, with increasing frequency.