It’s simpler than that. They just don’t know what the word “fascist” means. They believe it to mean “anyone we feel is evil”, and don’t equate it with any sort of censorship. Furthermore, they don’t feel censorship is bad or even considered censorship when they do it–it’s just forbidding people from having a voice who don’t deserve to have a voice (in their minds).

It’s like the term “far-right” which they use to label anyone they consider “bad”. I’ve seen Kim Jong Un, who leads the most Communist country that ever was, labeled as “far-right” by legacy media when it was rumored that trump invited him to the inauguration.

I’ll also note that the typical response of business is to go along with government. The exceptions tend to be those at the small end where the owners have well established political beliefs. Public companies always seem to fold.

It’s heartening that Zuck seems to be making an honest mea culpa and pointing his finger in the right direction. But I’ll reserve any trust until we see more proof.

The 2020 election/Zuckerbucks scandal was funded through the Chan/Zuckerberg Initiative. I have wondered who exactly is Priscilla Chan? How far to the right will she let Mark go (he said with only a touch of facetiousness)?

@ Rufus T. Firefly > “I like the concept of, “a mirage of reasons.” As in, “Alvin Bragg indicted DJT for a mirage of reasons.” ”

Agreed, and I’m going to look for places to use it!

Plus, Jimmy is right to remind us of the Zuckerbuck bias, and there is little doubt that the staff of Meta/Facebook is largely (if not completely) left-Democrat, which could not happen without some degree of approval and/or direction from the Boss.

I agree with huxley that Zuck is no fool, and what he actually believes, or agreed with, or fought against (for a while) is still up for discussion with the current lack of solid evidence.

However, a business mogul trimming his sails to the current political wind is not new, and is likely related to whatever he and Trump talked about.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/tomorrow-watch-joe-rogan-demolishes-mark-zuckerberg-when/

While the interview began well, it eventually turned south once the topic of COVID-19 censorship came up. Zuckerberg tried to argue that while he did not agree with every method the Biden regime used to push vaccination, he still defended the overall goal.

“I think…they (the Biden regime) were doing something,” Zuckerberg stated. “Their goal to get everyone vaccinated was actually a good goal…”

“Yeah, it was a good goal if it worked…if it really did prevent people from getting COVID, from infecting others,” Rogan retorted. “But it didn’t, so it wasn’t a good deal.”

Undeterred, Zuckerberg continued to carry water for the Regime on COVID-19 censorship. What he said next was absolutely outrageous.

“Still, on balance, I still think it’s good for more people to get the vaccine,” Zuckerberg responded. “I’m not sure in that case how much of it was like a personal political gain that they were going for. I think that they had a kind of goal that they thought was in the interests of the country.”

As TGP readers know, the Biden-Harris Censorship Industrial Complex changed policies against the political right at Amazon, YouTube, Google, and Facebook, among others. The Republican-led House has been holding hearings all summer documenting the nation’s largest and most extensive violation of the First Amendment in history.

These First Amendment violations were the most acute regarding COVID-19.

Once Rogan heard this garbage claim that the Biden regime censored credible voices on the COVID-19 vaccine for the ‘greater good,’ he absolutely lit up Zuckerberg.
…
“Well, there’s a bunch of problems with that,” Rogan began. “There’s the emergency use authorization that they needed in order to get this pushed through. And you can’t have that without valid therapeutics being available. And so they suppressed valid therapeutics.”

“So they’re suppressing real information that would lead to people being healthy and successful in defeating this disease, he continued. “And they did that so that they could have this one solution.”

“And this was Fauci’s game plan. I mean, this is the movie Dallas Buyers Club. That’s Fauci in that movie. That was with the AIDS crisis. This is the exact same game plan that was played out with the COVID vaccine.”

“They pushed one solution, this only one, suppressed all therapeutics through propaganda, through suppressing monoclonal antibodies, like all of it,” Rogan concluded. “And that was done, in my opinion, for profit. And they did that because it was extremely profitable. The amount of money that was made was extraordinary during that time.”

This exchange proves that Zuckerberg still has not completely changed despite his extensive efforts to prove otherwise. He will start appeasing Democrats once they return to power.

https://accordingtohoyt.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/khhadwon.png?w=900

MEME Zuckerberg would still be fact-checking if Kamala Harris had won.

He speaks in the manner of his generation, his morals are … um, flexible, but he is one smart SOB.

He didn’t inherit his empire from someone else. He built it in the face of immense competition as the internet took off.

I don’t like him. I don’t respect him. But he is no fool and I respect him for that much.

“Well, yeah, …, but, … like… you know… uummm ugh … right!! … you are correct.”
I suspect all of the valley girls grew up and became administrators and “thought leaders” at
the education schools and colleges that Art Deco has been citing as a core societal problem.

Yeah…but ONLY because he and his companies will no longer be rolled by the “Biden” administration after he dared say “NO” to them once or twice.

+ Bonus—Dynamite assessment of the Liberal-Left disaster:
Take back the Night(TM), Australian edition…
“‘Smug’ Justin Trudeau’s downfall a warning for Anthony Albanese after the Canadian PM reaped the destructive rewards of progressive politics”—
https://tinyurl.com/mpwzu6m8
H/T Blazingcatfur blog

Dmixhaud:

You get Rogan! I find it so funny that he is now considered a right-winger.

Rogan was a Democrat, a Bernie Bro, a psychedelic advocate. Democrats say they are now looking for their Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan was their Joe Rogan until they drove him away with their woke madness.