Comment Problem with Google/Facebook mandating morality (Score 0) 55
Problem with Google/Facebook mandating morality and acting as the arbiter of truth, is that they have a poor record in these things. We know from their past actions that Schmidt, Zuckerberg et al. are greedy and unethical pieces of garbage.
Whatever it is that they're peddling right now, climate change or mental purity or w/e, might very well be good and worthwhile things. But you really have to think hard about who's behind it and ask yourself, do we really want to give these power-hungry scum even more power to influence governments and public policy?
Just in case you were unaware, lots and lots of people, including citizen journalists inside mainland China, discovered some pretty damning evidence that Chinese government-run lab in Wuhan was monkeying around with bat coronavirus doing gain-of-fucntion research and there was a pretty serious event that happened in Oct 2019.
One example: for several days in October nearly all cell phone connections in an approximately 100-metre radius from the Wuhan lab disappeared. It's in a busy city so normally you would see thousands of cell connections there. But for a few days it was almost completely gone, as if the govt' shut down the area and set up roadblocks and had police patrols keeping people out. And that's pretty much what it was.
Of course back around Feb - May 2020 you had people posting this kind of information, laying out the case of why COVID was a manmade disease leaked out of the Wuhan lab, and Google/Youtube/Facebook was busy deleting and banning any and every such post and video. They said it's fake news, it's conspiracy theory, it's not true, and since Google/Facebook have appointed themselves as the arbiter of truth, of course they should be deleted.
A year later it turns out that those "conspiracy theories" are actually true, and the only fake news here was the shit Google/Facebook was peddling, which is to say this was a natural disease that happened from people eating bats purchased at the wet market. Yeah, that's complete and total fake news. Which Google and Facebook were happily pushing. People who have lived in that area for decades are saying they have never seeen any bats sold at that market, ever