“If you want to know who wields power in a society, there’s a simple and effective test: Who supports censorship?” The latest from Megan McArdle: wapo.st/3WfeleX - ThreadSky

postopinions.bsky.social • 44 days ago

“If you want to know who wields power in a society, there’s a simple and effective test: Who supports censorship?”

The latest from Megan McArdle: https://wapo.st/3WfeleX

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paultopping.bsky.social•44 days ago

Being against censorship sounds like a virtue because it usually pairs with a commitment to truth. Without such a commitment, it ends up simply as the freedom to tell lies.

mel-33.bsky.social•42 days ago

Gaslighting to protect the spread of misinformation.

ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social•43 days ago

They’re literally censoring news outlets right now

pathenry.bsky.social•43 days ago

🤡

nerdahedron.bsky.social•44 days ago

Nice water carrying for the fascists. Not that we expected better at this point.

callistamoonrise.bsky.social•43 days ago

And a quick reminder that the promotion of ivermectin and hydroxychloroqune over masking and a working vaccine likely directly caused thousands of deaths in the US alone during Covid. You seriously underestimate how pissed social media user are about being manipulated by liars, you utter shill.

callistamoonrise.bsky.social•43 days ago

If you go onto Facebook and search for fuckzuck, a common hastag here, and no doubt even twitter, you get zero hits. Facebook has been censoring a lot well before this wholly unwelcome action. People are pissed and no Bezos-driven appeasement piece is going to change that.

sdtey.bsky.social•44 days ago

A free society can’t survive if facts and lies are given equal weight. That’s anarchy.
If you believe fact checking equals censorship, your brain has turned to mush.

historycrumbles.bsky.social•42 days ago

The more intelligent solution would have been to the rethink the algorithms that favor false, inflammatory content. Liberals are already starting to flood Facebook with false, anti-Republican content, which, as it grows more sophisticated, will eventually force Facebook to reinstitute censorship.

pediatricpulse.bsky.social•44 days ago

Sure ignore all the republicans banning books and focus on social media fact checkers as the ultimate threat to freedom. Meanwhile rampant medical misinformation (mostly from the right) literally kills people as does misinfo about the hurricane and fires.

kaneshuppert.bsky.social•43 days ago

Megan McArdle? This person has never been right about anything.

exnerd.bsky.social•43 days ago

FACT CHECKING IS NOT CENSORSHIP. Providing context and additional information in response to mis/disinformation is literally the opposite of censorship.

On the other hand, WA Post preventing its own reporters from publishing cartoons/stories Bezos doesn't like? That's censorship.

reallyreallyreal.bsky.social•43 days ago

Care to comment on the reports that Megan McArdle is a baby eating pedophile? Please respond to these reports or you’re censoring me and that is very bad.

reallyreallyreal.bsky.social•43 days ago

You people deserve every single bad thing that happens to you.

blifff.bsky.social•43 days ago

What the fuck is this?

stevejazz.bsky.social•44 days ago

Wrong. Responsible fact-checking is NOT censorship.

chriswoof.bsky.social•44 days ago

Just look at which billionaires own the media

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