Introducing One of the Top Censors at Facebook

Glenn Greenwald: "Meet Aaron Berman: who spent his entire adult life working at the CIA, only to leave to become a top Facebook official responsible for censoring political speech.Among other things, Aaron was the key Facebook official who censored Brazil's debates before its 2022 election."

And speaking of ex-spies now at social media, you'll find CIA, FBI, NSA and DHS ex-employees.  And there is a saying that one you work at the CIA, you never stop working at the CIA, no matter where you end up:

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Internet COVID Censorship: Zero-for-Four

Dr. Vinay Prasad:

It is kinda a big problem when government asks social media to censor people opposed to masking toddlers, closing schools, mandating boosters in young men and people suspicious of the narrative of natural origin, and then turn out to be wrong on every single issue.

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Free Speech and Meta-Thinking

Thinking is mostly not something you actively do. Thoughts mostly occur to you. They well up from below. “You” are the culmination of prior events over which you have little or no control. To the extent that people deny and abhor this fact, they are especially vulnerable to censorship.

[Added July 29]

I am largely in agreement with Sam Harris on the topic of free will.

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The Corruption of Wikipedia

In 2021, the co-founder of Wikipedia warned that the website has become hopelessly corrupted. The article appeared in the New York Post: "Wikipedia co-founder says site is now ‘propaganda’ for left-leaning ‘establishment.’" Here is an excerpt:

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has warned that the website can no longer be trusted — insisting it is now just “propaganda” for the left-leaning “establishment.”

Sanger told UnHerd’s Lockdown TV Wednesday that he started the “encyclopedia of opinion” in 2001 purely on the basis it would offer true neutrality and offer “multiple points of view” on “hot button issues.”

Now, he insisted, conservative voices are “sternly warned if not kicked out” if they try to add a different take on establishment views — which Sanger deemed “propaganda.”

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