By Jo Nova

Suddenly free speech is cool again

This is not the Tipping Point they were expecting.

Now that the election is safely over, Mark Zuckerberg, the coward, admits that censorship went too far and free speech is important. He’s decided that Facebook and Instagram will drop the third party “fact checkers” that crushed content and banned people because the “fact checkers” made too many mistakes. (Of course, he doesn’t admit that these were not mistakes at all, but entirely the plan.)

As David Evans (the other half) says “Reminds me of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell. It was the end of another leftist regime based on censorship and cancelling. The good news just kept on coming.”

It’s a very limited mea culpa — it was just good intentions and a bit of scope creep you know…

It’s not like he was interfering in elections, tilting the balance to buy political protection, increase his profits, or score points at dinner parties with billionaire friends.

From the Press Release:

More Speech and Fewer Mistakes

In recent years we’ve developed increasingly complex systems to manage content across our platforms, partly in response to societal and political pressure […]