I just saw a video on Facebook sent by a friend which was commentary by a doctor with pretty good credentials who was making a fairly shocking, but at the same time informational, critique of the new Pfizer vaccine and coronavirus vaccines in general.
When you open the file you must first look at a screen from Facebook stating that the information in the video is false and referring you to a fact check organization. Then you are allowed to open it.
Don't the Facebook developers see how destructive this practice is, how it immediately irritates people who want to think for themselves, and in fact enhances the credibility of the video by suggesting that they are trying to hide it? Don't they understand that they are expected to be a forum for open communication and not a regulator of what we see and think?
I would have no problem with the Facebook people, if they feel the information is false, recruiting another expert to provide in the comment area an opposing commentary on the post or who might direct readers through a link to an alternative video from another expert rebutting the information, and let us decide for ourselves.
If those who run Facebook, and the other social media sites, don't understand that many of us are not particularly interested in their point of view and that in this free country, whose survival depends on the free flow of information and open debate, then they need to have serious competition and perhaps consideration of antitrust action or at least removal of any government protection they might presently enjoy.
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