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Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return by asdfman123 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @07:15PM (#28793361)
Lies aren't opinions. "Hillary Clinton is a Gila Monster" is not an opinion but a complete fabrication.

That's what mainstream liberals are deeply concerned about, not conservative ideas about taxation.

Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return by bodge5000 on Friday October 08, 2021 @11:46AM (#28800537)
Maybe I'm behind on the times but I don't think liberals are kept up at night by the idea of someone putting on facebook that the clintons are a race of green skinned aliens.

In actual fact I think, as per usual, the situation is more complicated than that. Some of the censoring may be for fabrications, but the people who decide what is and isn't a fabrication are biased, and therefore leads to opinions at very least being caught up in the mix

Re:Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return by chmod600 on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:02PM (#28794387)
But in practice it's taking out things that appear to be true or at least a viable theory. For instance, the reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop, and the lab leak theory.

So be concerned about people calling Clinton a Gila Monster if that's your most pressing concern. But by censoring it, you will also miss out on contrarian reporting that's actually true.