Last week the news broke that Meta — the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and half the internet — claims it will be pulling back drastically from its censorship policies. Free speech will reign again on Facebook, supposedly. The CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, appeared on Joe Rogan a couple of days ago to elaborate on this decision. Much of what he says in the conversation — along with the entire conversation itself — would have been unthinkable four or five years ago. But times are rapidly changing.
Specifically, in the interview, Zuckerberg affirmed that there’s nothing wrong with a masculine culture in a workplace — and that, in fact, a lot of companies would benefit from it. Imagine that. Watch:
Eight years ago, these are the kinds of ideas that would’ve — and if you recall the case of James Damore — did get rank-and-file employees fired at Google. And now the head of a major Big Tech company is saying it.
Of course, the obvious response to this interview is that Zuckerberg doesn’t actually believe any of this. He’s just saying it because Trump won the election, and he wants to cozy up with power. And that’s almost certainly true. But it doesn’t fully capture what’s going on — which is that there’s also been a major shift in American culture this time around. After all, Trump won the election back in 2016, too. And Zuckerberg didn’t say anything like this. Instead his companies reacted by entrenching themselves even deeper on the Left. Now the exact opposite is happening.
In the interview, Zuckerberg suggested that some of Facebook’s censorship was the result of pressure by the Biden administration, although he claims to have resisted some of it. Watch: […]
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