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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's kind of funny watching far left liberals here get bent out of shape because Zuckerberg has decided to embrace free speech.

Free speech used to be valued by liberals.  [/quote]

Free speech is a two-way street. You can say whatever you want, but people are free to challenge what you've said and call it out for bullshit. You don't want "free speech", you want consequence-free speech.[/quote]

That’s totally fair.  But if you want to put in partisan fact checkers that put out false information (i.e., Covid had nothing to do with Wuhan laboratories) or if you want to suppress speech by manipulating your algorithms to silence opposing points of view without disclosure or under government pressure, that’s not practicing the two way street.[/quote]

Which was it?  I seem to recall the right wingers all saying it was because of the Wuhan wet market, with snarky comments about "bat soup" and everything else, as opposed to a lab in Wuhan.  So the right wing was putting a lot of false information out there.  At the time no solid connection had been made other than hat it appeared to have something to do with Wuhan.

Meanwhile did censorship about Wuhan get anyone killed?  No.  Covid had already spread around the globe long before anyone on the right even said the word Wuhan.

Instead all of the anti-vax, "it's a hoax" and fake/unproven "cures" et cetera disinfo that the right wing definitely DID get people killed.[/quote]

It was the scientists insisting covid came from a wet market.  From the beginning, right leaning sources had concerns about the virology lab and its vicinity to where the symptoms first were reported, and were asking questions about why China was restricting so much information.  So that answers question one.

As for question two, it’s a matter of resources and ethics.  Just as an example, it costs money to investigate animal reservoirs for diseases - capturing bats and other animals, and testing and running genetic profiles.  Diversion of valuable research dollars into a pit is a problem.

Secondly, there are the ethics involved of running a social media company and squashing free speech, which is the point of this thread.  It was not misinformation to question the origins of covid, and Zuckerberg was wrong to silence those voices.[/quote]

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