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US state AGs: How can Facebook, Google, Twitter say they tackle misinformation when *gestures wildly at COVID-19 BS everywhere*

Cliffwilliams44 Silver badge

The problem is this kind of thinking sows the seeds of totalitarianism! Free speech means you can say what every you like and people are free to believe your are an idiot! The "fire in a theater" analogy does not hold here because telling people vaccines are dangerous or that the election was stolen does not cause hundreds of people to run for the exists and trample each other!

If a Facebook post cause someone to not get a COVID vaccine then that is "their" fault! It is not the nanny state nor the nanny tech companies responsibility to "protect the stupid!"

And yet, with that said, the continued false narratives pushed out by the media and politicians are not at all subjected to this scrutiny!

False narratives like: White men are attacking Asians!

Fact: The majority of attacks on Asians over the last year in the US were committed by Black men!

You did not see Facebook, Twitter, Google, et. all take these down!

When this type of selective censorship is directed at particular subjects and particular political ideologies then it definitely becomes totalitarian.

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