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Your very first link is Hawley sending a letter because Facebook censored a Hunter Ukraine story.

Republicans are pissed because of the censorship (the big ones being lab leak and Hunter Biden's laptop, but there are smaller things all the time, 15 days bans for sharing a story the narrative doesn't agree with).

There's a good argument to make if FB wants to act like the arbiter of truth, the "truth" they choose should be legally liable.

Democrats are pissed because FB doesn't go far enough or something. They want ALL conservative media off the site.

Democrats want to amplify that censorship, Republicans don't want any censorship. Who is on the right side?



You're painting with too broad of a brush here, I think. In general, saying 'all' about anything tends to make that statement false at some point.

It's easy to knock down a straw-man, I guess is my point.


My point is it's clearly a party issue to censor conservatives in the D party. The only issue R's have with FB is the censorship itself.

Does that clear things up or do you have any questions?


I've seen enough pro-Marxists posts brigaded off of Facebook to know that Republicans have no actual problem with Facebook censorship.

Their beef is what Facebook is allowed to censor. They don't want to stop the juggernaut; they want to steer it.


And which Republican representatives are those?

Or are you talking about random people?

I can find you random people of all calibers on both sides, that's not the conversation.

This is about politicians in the government coordinating a way to censor citizens who practice political dissent.




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