content: Ulterior motives in the media's criticisms of Facebook? Facebook is getting an epic pile-on by the corporate media lately. There's story after story about privacy scandals that would ordinarily get swept under the rug. Most of the types of stuff being reported is the type of thing that knowledgable people have known about for years. This isn't limited to Infowars journalism, but all major corporate media has joined the pile-on. It seems like the corporate press isn't stopping with the pile-on, and in fact it's getting more intense. Do you think that the media shills all of a sudden care about freedom and privacy? What if there's an ulterior motive to this? Truth seekers would tend to celebrate and go "Aha, we've finally managed to get the word out about how crooked Zuckerberg is. We've won!" But what if their real goal is to create such strong public furor about privacy issues online that it results in wide scale government regulation of social media and the internet? What if their goal is to enforce "privacy standards" that really control websites, forces them to be built a certain way or use certain approved infrastructure that they control and can ultimately censor in the long run?  What if they create more liability for privacy issues on websites? (On the surface it sounds like a good thing, but Facebook and their ilk have enough lawyers to fight anything, it would just fuck over small operations like Voat and other fairly Indy sites by creating a chilling effect due to being liable for any hacks or privacy issues) Prediction: Here's what's going to happen soon. Zuckerberg is going to testify in front of both house and senate and be an embarrassing sweaty mess. There will be start to be stories about how the internet needs regulation. Not to protect free speech, but for privacy. On the surface it will sound good and seem like a blow to Facebook and a win for consumers, but these laws will mostly fuck over smaller sites and in the long run (((they))) will gain even more control of the internet by crafting the legislation that comes out of this. Internet privacy is a big problem and bias and censorship on major platforms is a big problem, but if I'm right I think their real goal is to use this to go after sites they don't control and most of us aren't focusing on this because we don't like Facebook and will support anything that appears to cut them down a notch. Just my 2 cents about what to look out for