During Covid is when I deleted every post I had ever made in 15 years on Facebook because I could see the direction it was going. I would not call it worse then than now, though. They are still bannin...
I mean I see pretty consistent criticism of Israel and even the US government today on very mainstream platforms. Love him or hate him hasan is one of the most popular streamers today. Nick Fuentes just had 150k people watching him live after Kirk’s murder.
You had people’s lives destroyed for even saying “corona virus” forget “vaccine.” People’s channels were being taken down for mentioning an illness.
My argument certainly isn’t that “censorship isn’t happening.” I’m sure shadow banning is still very crazy. But videos were being taken down within the hour they were posted during Covid. Decade old channels taken down for being skeptical about the lethality of the virus.
Hell forget even the notion of Covid. I saw videos being taken down for speaking negatively about transitioning kids during that time. Now there are entire channels dedicated to this.
If you’re talking specifically about the Israeli genocide in Palestine being censored you could absolutely be correct. I have no idea. I don’t feel the need to look into it. I think it’s pretty easy to know what’s going on there. I don’t need to see any more dead or dying people to know.
I don’t know if “organic reach” has ever been a real concept. I don’t think that’s how any of these platforms have ever operated.
There’s definitely still censorship. There’s definitely still measures being taken to hide things from the public. But they pale in comparison the measures being taken during Covid and the 2020 election cycle.
You had people’s lives destroyed for even saying “corona virus” forget “vaccine.” People’s channels were being taken down for mentioning an illness.
My argument certainly isn’t that “censorship isn’t happening.” I’m sure shadow banning is still very crazy. But videos were being taken down within the hour they were posted during Covid. Decade old channels taken down for being skeptical about the lethality of the virus.
Hell forget even the notion of Covid. I saw videos being taken down for speaking negatively about transitioning kids during that time. Now there are entire channels dedicated to this.
If you’re talking specifically about the Israeli genocide in Palestine being censored you could absolutely be correct. I have no idea. I don’t feel the need to look into it. I think it’s pretty easy to know what’s going on there. I don’t need to see any more dead or dying people to know.
I don’t know if “organic reach” has ever been a real concept. I don’t think that’s how any of these platforms have ever operated.
There’s definitely still censorship. There’s definitely still measures being taken to hide things from the public. But they pale in comparison the measures being taken during Covid and the 2020 election cycle.
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