The free speech crisis

 

Meta (which owns and operates Facebook) is being sued by 33 US states, including California, for endangering youth mental health. 

OK, wait a sec.

Why would the home state of Woke, California, sue Mark Zuckerberg??? And what "mental health crisis" are we talking about, anyway? Guardian´s article never once mentions the trans craze. So presumably *that* viral youth phenomenon isn´t part of the crisis, then?

My opinionated guess is that this is an attempt by the "liberal" wing of the establishment to discipline Meta (generally also regarded as a "liberal" platform) and pave the way for more government regulation of the web if and when Zucc refuses to be properly disciplined. 

And the reason has nothing to do with "youth mental health" (cough cough school lockdowns cough cough trans drugs) and everything to do with the fear of "disinformation". As in propaganda from some *other* wing of the establishment...and the few dissenting voices that may actually tell the unvarnished truth.

In other words, it´s an attack on free speech and so forth. 

Something tells me there are better ways to deal with the mental health crisis, and that there is a bipartisan consensus in the US (and perhaps the UK) not to implement those measures...

Meta sued by 33 states over claims youth health endangered by Instagram