Source: Brownstone Institute
by James Bovard
“Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg recently lamented how his company groveled to federal demands to censor any criticism of the Biden administration’s Covid policy. But is Facebook really launching a ‘Brave New World’ era of free speech? Facebook notified me on Sunday morning that eight years ago, I posted a link to my Washington Times article warning of Dictatorial Democracy regardless of whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump won the 2016 election. … I tapped the button to automatically send a notice on ‘Dictatorial Democracy’ to all my Facebook friends and followers. No such luck: Facebook notified me that they had banned sharing the piece because it violated Facebook ‘Community Standards.’ Maybe if I had simply howled about one of the current presidential candidates being Hitler, that would have satisfied Facebook’s Community Standards?” (11/06/24)