The Tolerant Left at it again....again

[Belsnickel]

(10-21-2020, 10:22 AM)PhilHos Wrote: While I fully grant that possibility that they don't understand Amendments apply only to the government (in terms of restrictions or lack thereof), do you guys grant that maybe they DO understand that and want certain businesses to also be held to the same standard as the government?

Here's my problem with the "free speech" rally. Disclaimer before I begin, I don't endorse the violence that occurred.

The whole thing that they were protesting over was not censorship of conservatives. It was an attempt to limit the reach of potential disinformation that could have a major impact. Even the people at the NY Post knew that it wasn't reliable information and the guy who wrote most of it refused to put his name on it for that reason. The NY Post itself is notorious for stories that are less-than-credible to the point where it is almost a tabloid. There is still a ton of misinformation spreading around about the topic as evidenced in other threads on this forum. Facebook had a meeting a few years ago where they discussed they weren't going to censor fake news because an objective application of such a policy would be seen as targeting right-wing users at a higher rate and they didn't want that perception. I'm not joking here, that was the actual reason given.

This is why I can't take those things seriously. Studies show that the right is just more apt to share and spread misinformation and disinformation. It's not that these companies are actively trying to suppress conservative voices, it's just that most of the fake news comes from the right.