– Winston Churchill on Zuckerberg, I mean WWII

This is typical of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the rest. It is a deliberate trap that sacrifices its own citizens in order to demonize Israel for protecting itself.

IIRC, Nasrallah lives underground, beneath a hospital.

Very good observation. A fist and Zuck’s face seem to be made for each other, almost preternaturally.

Now, the next part of the censorship plan can go forward. Attacks against what comes next will be deflected by insisting that (i) social media censorship is “old news;” (ii) Zuckerberg already admitted what was done and expressed regret; and (iii) that was mean old Biden anyway, and he’s gone now. Leftist censors will insist that this admission from Zuckerberg removes the 2020 censorship as an issue (i.e., “old news”) and demand that critics prove that new censorship is ongoing. They they’ll rely on their old bag of tricks to stall and stonewall, making it incredibly difficult to prove censorship in real time. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

The right is fighting ghosts here. Zuckerberg is not our friend. And I don’t for a second buy this as anything more than the censors’ next move.

Intro:

As governments everywhere tighten their grip on the Internet, Meta’s CEO blows a hole in years of official lies. How authorities brought this on themselves

• ‘In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content…’

• ‘The FBI warned us about a potential Russian disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the lead up to the 2020 election … the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we should not have demoted the story.’

Rep. Jim Jordan’s X account covers some more, and also had a 12:03 PM · Jul 27, 2023 Post – “THE FACEBOOK FILES, PART 1: SMOKING-GUN DOCS PROVE FACEBOOK CENSORED AMERICANS BECAUSE OF BIDEN WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE”. Instagram gets mentioned in that Post…

Another ‘tiny leak in a dike’…

Because reporting is done in herds, no one wildebeest can break formation without screwing things up for the others. So, they’ll all hold the line, until they all stop holding the line. This is why a multi-billionaire like Zuckerberg, a human supertanker whose tiniest move causes market-disrupting fluctuations in his company’s share price, is able to correct himself faster than mere line reporters for media companies.

Governments can’t allow the public to have a debate about whether or not they are “censoring” people, which is why everyone who’s made claims in that direction, from Durov to Elon Musk to Glenn Greenwald to Max Blumenthal to me, has been tarred with the Hitler-of-the-month treatment in the press and dismissed as quacks, Trump supporters, or both.

Zuckerberg putting “censor” in writing forces the Dana Bashes of the world to start adding the Meta CEO to their already bloated list of Putin-loving right-wing fabulists. This technique is already stretched beyond the limits of plausibility, and a full defection from the Bullshit Cartel of Zuckerberg — whose internal analysts surely have a more accurate read on the population’s leanings than any poll agency — would make continued dismissals of censorship claims all but impossible. Were he to give full evidence to someone like Jordan, it would make the Twitter Files look like a mild appetizer.

Some who were involved with the Murthy v. Missouri Supreme Court case on digital censorship are a little frosty today, irritated that Zuckerberg’s admissions came too late to help make their public case. As someone who dealt with frustration trying to roll the same story uphill, and whose own articles are frequently vaporized on Meta without explanation, I understand, but choose to look on the bright side. Zuckerberg’s letter can only be good news. Our idiot ruling junta finally pushed too far, and a man moved to offer authorities a taste of embarrassment can surely be convinced to serve the whole meal. Mr. Zuckerberg, can we hear the rest?

Putting the train of events* so succinctly makes them sound even more fictional — no producer would ever buy that script, unless it was maybe Mel Brooks looking for a new farce.

*And that was just since last June (!!!) — try starting back in 2008 for improbable political situations.