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 So don't the Zuckerberg censorship revelations mean the 2020 election was stolen? 

Will Biden or Harris face any consequences for this? 
 If you mean prosecution by the state, no; the ballot box is a different story. 
 No. Unfortunately. 
 It’s so wild! And multiply it by 10 for google. 
 No, they "fortified" the election in order to save democracy Stephan. C'mon man! 
 Democracy has been dead for a long time. Convince me otherwise.  
 I think you mean ‘representative democracy’. Words are important and I often hear people generalising in a rather goofy way.
If, on the other hand, you really mean democracy in general, I don't want to convince you otherwise, but I would like to know what you would replace it with. Monarchy? Autocracy? Aristocracy? Polytheia? Theocracy? 
 A lot of people talking about the Zuckerberg censorship... I wonder what about  @jack's censorship...  What he did at titter is not less outrageous than what Zuck did. Why so many otherwise critical bitcoiners give him a pass?  
 That's just callin' it like it is. If we can't be honest, it doesn't matter what we want to be. We want Jack on our side, but there are unresolved issues. Big ones. Lot of hard conversations still need to be had.  
 "calling it like it is, what we want it to be" I don't think I understand you.  My point is this: 

a) Yes, Kamala/Biden stole the election.  They are not paying consequences but no sane bitcoiner is cheering for them.
b) Yes Zuckmyverg  censored people and help them stole the election.  He is not paying consequences but no sane bitcoiner is cheering for him either. 
c) ALSO YES  @jack promoted the exact same immoral nasty vicious censorious criminal censorship than Suckmyverg.  He is also not paying consequences AND for some misterious reason many otherwise sane bitcoiners act like "he is amazing so stunning and brave and such a hero..."   

The cognitive dissonance is obvious. 

 
 As for Biden/Harris, to the contrary, I read FB taking ownership of censorship decisions - whether or not in the face of government pressure - as an attempt to deflect blame towards the administration.  Furthermore, the indication that they will continue to rely on 'fact-checkers' for their censorship decisions reveals how empty of mea culpa this statement actually is. 
 You mean like getting the Nobel peace prize? 
 They’ll brush it off. Plus it’ll be hard to quantify just how much influence was involved and how effective it was. 

On second though Meta probably had the algorithms from ads that can measure exactly that… 
 Trump was running the White House in 2020 😂 
 Of course not. 
 Facebook users are used to eat so much shit, that Zuckmydick admitting he farted years ago taste like candy