All this talk about everyone leaving Facebook because of censoring and fact checking has me a little confused. Now granted I don't claim to know a lot about FB policy's and such. And from what I'm reading there pretty well could be some valid reasons. I have just not seen any of the things they complain about personally. I'm seeing the biggest complaint is about fact checking. Anybody that follows me knows I have always complained about the fact that people are constantly writing posts that are outright lies and fabrication. Now I guess you could consider this a right of free speech and to some extent you would be right. All I have seen FB do is put a disclaimer under such post that are proven false or misleading. I have heard people say their post were deleted but like I say I have had no experience with that. But then I don't post those kinds of posts. My opinion... When I go to someone's house I go by their rules. I may not agree with them but those are the rules. If someone tells me I can't cuss.. then I don't cuss If I don't agree .. I don't go back. In that respect I completely understand people going to these other platforms where they have the 'freedom' to say or do whatever they want. I personally don't have a problem with the rules as long as they are enforced unilaterally. I don't wish to be bombarded with a bunch of lies and unproven conspiracy theory's myself so I have no problem with it . Now the problem. Most of the people (not all) that are complaining are right wing people that feel they are having their rights taken away. They feel that FB is being bias in their fact checking. That's understandable in this divided country we live in right now so I don't blame them at all for exiting. What I see as a problem is these new sites (by their own definition) are far right leaning sites although they claim to be unbiased. They're could be liberal site's as well I'm not sure .. All if the ones that have been suggested to me were not but that doesn't mean they aren't out there. That in itself is still not a problem until we come to a point where social media is totally divided into left /right groups just like the rest of the nation. People we cannot divide up into two groups and only talk to our own group and not have conversation with the opposing group and heal this country. My way or the highway doesn't work when we all have to travel the same highway. All I see is further division and added hate compounding weekly and nobody I mean NOBODY is making any effort what so ever to quench it. So go ahead split into your little safe haven groups and talk all the dirty smack about how stupid and bad the other side is because I guarantee you they are doing the same thing. One day their highways will merge and this country will pay a terrible price. There will be no winners Only losers Mark my word !!
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