Facebook bans German anti-lockdown accounts under new ‘social harm’ policy

Re:Facebook bans German anti-lockdown accounts under new ‘so... by Joker_vD on Friday September 17, 2021 @07:29AM (#28564122)

Those two scenarios of yours are not really mutually exclusive, at all. The government can both take the necessary public health measures and realize that those measures are rather drastic and can be used for permanent curtailing of public's control over government. Government is made out of many people, you know, so its overall intention is the combined intentions of people it consists of.

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Re:Facebook bans German anti-lockdown accounts under new ‘so... by unclebucknasty on Friday September 17, 2021 @10:08AM (#28565667)

>Those two scenarios of yours are not really mutually exclusive

The difference between the slippery slope concern you're referencing and a willful conspiracy is significant to say the least.

This is why I first explicitly sought to clarify my GP's belief, which they emphatically confirmed as of the purposeful, malicious intent variety. In their view, COVID measures are merely a conspiracy, intended to transform the U.S. into an authoritarian state.

So, that's what my reply was addressing.

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