Facebook Said to Create Censorship Tool to Get Back into China
I simply find it ironic as hell that people demand Facebook "ban fake news" on one hand and then bash it for developing "censorship tools" on the other. Come on, what's the difference between the two at all? So what kind of authority is Facebook to decide whether a piece of news is "fake" or not? This is very, very dangerous and stupid if you are truly trying to hold on to your proclaimed "freedom of speech" or whatnot. As Greenwald very well put it, the Democratic Party are just scrambling to find every kind of scapegoat they can find, without ever admitting they themselves are the problem. Come on, people didn't vote for Trump because they were misguided by "fake" news, or to put it another way, news that don't work in the Democrats' favor. People did so because the alternative is simply too horrible/hopeless for them to contemplate. Simple as that.<p>So either you admit that what China has been doing is essentially not anything different from what you're demanding all over the place now (actually, the majority of the "censorship" in China is against smearing campaigns which entail totally false accusations against the Communist Party, which could be potentially very socially unsettling in their eyes), or you admit that what you've been demanding is some absolutely stupid and dangerous nonsense. Otherwise it's just another example of western hypocrisy, bias and double standards against China at its finest.