Eegore wrote on 12/07/22 at 19:33:37:"The issue here is the FBI.
You finally got there!"
It appeared this is being portrayed as a unified fault. A private company is not a public square:
This is what you’re not getting. The widespread and universal use of social media and it’s influence basically makes it a de facto public square.
That doesn't make them responsible for your 1st Amendment protections. They are free to work with the FBI if they want. Intentional strategizing with the FBI, with criminal intent, is an issue but so far the evidence provided doesn't support that.
I’m officially designating a new disease: Switzerland Syndrome. It’s a disease of the central nervous system which causes the afflicted to immediately stake out the middle between two positions at all cost, regardless of the evidence piling up on one side. Common side effects are very slight modifications to the position which seemed to indicate, at first glance, a position shift. However, a closer examination by an experienced professional (me) reveals that is just a manifestation of the disease which is thought to have evolved as a both a defense mechanism and as a method to lay out future pathways where the disease will once again manifest itself in an attempt to survive within the middle position weeks from now after being confronted with another does of antibiotics, aka Truth.
Unfortunately, the survivability of the Switzerland syndrome is extremely low and that statement is based entirely on forklore as no documented case of an afflicted one stepping away from the middle and onto one side or the other.
The only treatment is a combination of shaking one’s head at the illogical positions taken by the sick and a constant barrage of antibiotics, aka Truth.