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Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by trhway on Friday January 31, 2025 @05:15PM (#42892895)
Seems to be. Zuck recently, once Trump came in, publicly stated that the Biden admin forced him to censor Covid info. Now he censors what Trump wants him to.

I wouldn't blame him. Case in point - Durov(Telegram) had an opposite, government defying, position until he spent some time recently in a French prison. After some time there he made a public statement to the effect that he "has recognized the faults and mistakes of his previous ways". And the French prison isn't the worst out there.

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Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by afavour on Friday January 31, 2025 @07:06PM (#42894041)
> the Biden admin forced him to censor Covid info

No, he said they “pressured” him. Important difference. The choice was still ultimately his, which he now says he regrets.

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Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by trhway on Friday January 31, 2025 @07:59PM (#42894484)
It is Sopranos style difference.
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Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by afavour on Friday January 31, 2025 @08:15PM (#42894602)
It really isn’t. What did the Biden administration threaten them with?
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Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by trhway on Friday January 31, 2025 @08:22PM (#42894653)
The question is what they could do to them. A lot.
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Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by ceejayoz on Saturday February 01, 2025 @10:10AM (#42898892)
My neighbor could murder me.

They don’t. Instead they drop off cookies. That matters quite a bit.

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Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by trhway on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:13PM (#42902951)
Your example has no merits on both key factors - means and motive.

Means - your neighbor has no way to murder you without very high risk of getting punished afterwards. Where is Biden could do to FB whatever he wanted without any risk to himself.

Motive - does your neighbor pressures you into doing something worth killing for?

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Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by ceejayoz on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:34PM (#42903148)
I mean, sometimes they ask me to watch their dog.
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Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by lesuorac on Friday January 31, 2025 @10:25PM (#42895353)
I mean he also said in the same interview that after he pushed back against Biden, Biden opened an anti-trust lawsuit against Meta.

However, the anti-trust lawsuit was filed in the 1st Trump administration. So, I don't really think you can take anything Zuck says outside of a shareholder meeting at face value (where he has an actual penalty for lieing).

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