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by treeman79 1816 days ago
It’s past reinforcement bias and moved into picking winners.
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It's the fact that the censors are there to step in for things that are plausibly true. There isn't any need to censor flat-earth theories. Nobody cares, it doesn't have any implications and it easy to disprove (eg, the fact that the horizon dips away).

The censors only get really active for things that could plausibly be true or things that are absolutely true but inconvenient to the people who control the censorship office.

Not talking about flat earters. I’m taking about tech companies picking election winners by “fact checking”/suppressing stories that make their chosen guy look bad.