alt Hacker News> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President.
"Engaging in political censorship of their platform in favour of the President" is a little more than being "friendly".
Free Speech in the US is dying. Ignore it at your own peril.
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The point is that the people he's trying to communicate with don't care about that. You don't need to argue about that here, it's not relevant.
Dying? It isn't free speech if you can say what you like, but can only do it in a sound proofed room, alone.
Huh? When has Facebook ever implemented political censorship on behalf of Trump? I am not aware of a single case of such a thing even being requested, let alone granted. The scandals about government-directed social media censorship were under Biden's admin, not under Trump's.
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Yes, Zuckerberg admitted that this is what used to happen under Biden recently on a podcast,
Free speech died when Covid came along.
Are you talking about his role censoring for the current, or for the former admin? His flip flopping shows such a lack of character. However, being selectively outraged because this time he is doing it for someone you disagree with, which a lot of people are, reveals the real motives.