The top of google news this Monday, 10-25-2021 is:
I rarely use facebook. And there are times–many, many, many times–I don’t much like Zuckerberg. But the coordinated attack on Zuckerberg and Facebook is disturbing. The Washington Post article begins with talking about how Vietnam forced Facebook to censor political dissent or risk losing $1 billion. I am kind of shocked that the Vietnamese market earns Facebook a billion dollars. But regardless, what makes the article so evil is not that they oppose censorship in Vietnam–they don’t–but their issue is that Facebook does not do a better job of censorship all over the world. The article focuses on that bullshit, staged, deep state whistle blower. [opinion] and her her claims that Facebook is doing harm to young people.
But that claim is mostly garbage. Young people have always had to deal with self-image and doubting ones self. That issue stays with a person until they mature enough to realize most people are assholes, most people aren’t perfect, shit happens, and get the hell over it. Most people aren’t beautiful. Most people aren’t smart. Most people are not funny. Most people are not good in sports. Most people are average at most things and less than average regarding many things. We all make mistakes and say stupid shit at times. But none of that shit matters. What matters is that you don’t dwell on shit and you enjoy life moment to moment. There is no reason to define yourself, much less allow some asshole to define you.
Is Facebook built on the insecurity of humanity in general? No. It is built on the desire of people to connect, play games, share pictures, hook up for time away from the computer, and have conversations. That elite media and google want to control those conversations and prevent people from talking about the stupidity of google and the Washington Post and others is disturbing.
They pretend that all time cliche, “Won’t someone think about the children.” When in truth google does not give a flying freak about young people. I tell you what really hurts a young person. When the accounts of their social activity are snooped on by schools, employers ( current or future) or some asshole like at twitter labels their post this or that in an insulting way. What hurts not just young people but everyone is when the elite even go so far as to take payment processing away from someone because they are involved in some kind of wrong think.
These propaganda articles talk about hate speech. Here is a freaking clue. I have the God given right to hate anyone I damned well please or to like anyone I damned well please. I don’t have the right to physically hurt anyone. But here is the fucking upside down insanity of what the elite are doing. They call other people haters for wrong speak but then they actually do set out to harm people by kicking them off platforms, denying them payment processing, calling them names, giving them social credit scores, and ultimately driving them to suicide or perhaps even driving other people to murder them which is what the leaders of lynch mobs do. Too often the elite are no better than the old wild west lynch mobs of old days and that is in fact very disturbing.
Some young person trying to earn street cred by using the n word does not really hurt anyone. But shaming, blacklisting, and trying to push that young person to suicide goes beyond the point of hurtful to just plain fucking evil.
That we have so much media run by upside down crazy, evil people is by far more disturbing than any lack of censorship at Facebook.
The absolute crap that google puts at the top of their news pages is by far more disturbing than any lack of censorship at Facebook.