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Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee 🫤
Big Tech Abandons Content Moderation (Again)
Remember when social media companies were all about “safety” and “community guidelines”? Yeah, well, so much for that. Turns out, protecting users from hate speech, misinformation, and harassment is expensive. And in a world where the bottom line reigns supreme, those pesky “values” are often the first to get tossed out the window, like a half-eaten burrito from a speeding Tesla.
just dropped a bombshell: Big Tech is retreating from content moderation. Companies like Meta (Facebook and Instagram, to us dinosaurs), X (formerly known as Twitter), and others are laying off moderators, dismantling safety teams, and basically saying, “Fuck it, let the trolls run wild.” You know, the same trolls those companies swore they’d keep in line with all their “community guidelines” and “fact-checking” initiatives that were supposed to make the internet a kinder, gentler place?
Zuckerberg’s “Strategic Retreat”
Mark Zuckerberg, the digital emperor of Facebook and Instagram, recently announced a significant shift, a strategic retreat to the halcyon days of, well, less censorship. He claims they’re going to “restore free expression” by reducing reliance on those pesky fact-checkers and replacing them…
