{"id":11076,"date":"2019-11-01T21:13:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=11076"},"modified":"2019-11-01T21:13:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T21:13:33","slug":"freedom-to-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=11076","title":{"rendered":"Freedom to Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11083 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mark-Z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mark-Z.jpg 900w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mark-Z-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mark-Z-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Mark-Z-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11085 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Court-Painter-Mark-Z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Court-Painter-Mark-Z.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Court-Painter-Mark-Z-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Court-Painter-Mark-Z-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s CEO Mark Zuckerberg now gets to distribute and curate the news and information for more than 2.5 billion people\u2014and make money from those eyeballs\u2014with little risk of being held liable for the content.\u00a0Zuckerberg himself says he is making a simple moral choice. And maybe that\u2019s true, since he\u2019s been an <strong>absolutist on political speech<\/strong> since he started Facebook. The problem with that explanation is that it\u2019s hard to believe any discussion about morality from a man who has profited so handsomely from it. Zuckerberg is worth $70 billion. Facebook itself is worth half a trillion dollars. That\u2019s especially true given concerns that Zuckerberg and Facebook have wrongly skewed elections and helped dictators more easily oppress their citizens.<\/p>\n<p><em>(excerpted from Wired 10,31,2019)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11082 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-01-at-3.27.02-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-01-at-3.27.02-PM.png 487w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-01-at-3.27.02-PM-241x300.png 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 85vw, 487px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11084 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snowdon-tv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snowdon-tv.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snowdon-tv-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/snowdon-tv-768x551.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s CEO Mark Zuckerberg now gets to distribute and curate the news and information for more than 2.5 billion people\u2014and make money from those eyeballs\u2014with little risk of being held liable for the content.\u00a0Zuckerberg himself says he is making a simple moral choice. And maybe that\u2019s true, since he\u2019s been an absolutist on political speech &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=11076\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Freedom to Lie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11076"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11089,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11076\/revisions\/11089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}