Separate the political from the platform
Jan. 12th, 2026 05:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lonelyisletFirst of all, both Facebook and Google in aggregate suck. Google does corrupt things with Chrome. People have gotten randomly banned from Google services including Google+ (and of course, nymwars). And of course Facebook is all of this and probably worse
The problem is that on its surface, Facebook's politics make more sense, at least if Google's censorship is a real thing (Google the search engine, not Youtube, but they do own Youtube and I really hope G's censorship doesn't lead to Y's censorship, because Y does a ton of it)
Zuckerberg defended both Breitbart, and Alex Jones/Infowars. Before 2020, I might have believed that was wrong, but I've seen too much of what qualifies for "misinformation" (and therefore apparently it must be censored) at this point for that genie to go back in the bottle
The issue is that as a person Zuck is untrustworthy. Google doesn't have the data problems Facebook does. This situation irritates me. I want the best of both worlds and I want all these platforms/products to stop being shitty
The problem is that on its surface, Facebook's politics make more sense, at least if Google's censorship is a real thing (Google the search engine, not Youtube, but they do own Youtube and I really hope G's censorship doesn't lead to Y's censorship, because Y does a ton of it)
Zuckerberg defended both Breitbart, and Alex Jones/Infowars. Before 2020, I might have believed that was wrong, but I've seen too much of what qualifies for "misinformation" (and therefore apparently it must be censored) at this point for that genie to go back in the bottle
The issue is that as a person Zuck is untrustworthy. Google doesn't have the data problems Facebook does. This situation irritates me. I want the best of both worlds and I want all these platforms/products to stop being shitty
