(07-30-2023, 08:08 AM)Grace Wrote: What bothers me, niggling, underlying the surface of the article in it's entirety, is that this appears designed to restore public faith in Facebook's ethics. 'Well they objected to all this but it came from Biden's Whitehouse so all is well with the world' seems to be the message here.
I would say this is the left disassociating themselves with the Biden Administration loudly and publicly. Seems they found a fall guy for any questionable thing, so they can continue on, business as usual, without being so closely scrutinized... It was, after all, his administration's fault and no one really wanted to participate in partisan censorship.. Lol.
Color me cynical these days, but that's truly how I'm reading this. .
I believe it's all about an assumed attention span of an imaginary public and the need to retrieve lost customer
footfall on Zuckerberg's sell-out conduit of control. Ethics will always take a backseat when it comes to enhancing
profits and maintaining power on a cyber-highway where millions of individuals dare to hold different thoughts than
those with their finger on the 'Cancel'-button.
But just like the twin-towers tragedy, the many conflicts around the world and even the current silliness of flying
saucers now wishing to kill us with their ray-guns, topics designed to lure people into a certain way of thinking
just get filed away in the trash-can after their potency is drained through over-use and time.
One may notice how subject-matters are rarely revisited due to the assumption that either the convincing worked
or a self-generated belief held the line against against the way of thinking. This result is believed to arouse little
interest in -what was once, a supposedly jaw-dropping and world-changing situation.
The Covid-scare is merely another casualty of how the failing media does business and this quick turnaround
on what is supposedly 'Earth-shattering' to an audience shows how aligned social media, the mainstream media
and politicians actually are. Tomorrow is another day page.
Read The TV Guide, yer' don't need a TV.