Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook

Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by simple_phrases on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:56PM (#25837171)

Weird, I distinctly remember Twitter, Facebook and Google removing Islamic religious content under the guise of stopping terrorism a decade ago. What I don't remember is the current free speech absolutist crowd objecting to such censorship. In fact, I remember them cheering those companies on.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by chandra381 on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:15AM (#25843456)

Because they are largely hypocrites. In fact a lot of them identify more with the capitol rioters being delatformed and are scared that they could be next in line, and this was not the case with ISIS for example.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by Amezarak on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @07:43PM (#25841135)

This isn’t so. I and many other free speech proponents did not support that. There were people supporting it, but to the best of my knowledge they appear to mainly be the same people supporting censorship now.

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