Michael Rapaport has been called the “worst thing” on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Many of the comments center around him being Jewish and cannot be repeated here. He doesn’t like it, but it’s better than the alternative.
Been there, canceled before that.
The character actor-turned-stand-up has weighed in on Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge Remove biased “fact-checkers” on Facebook. This system prevented critical stories from reaching audiences, usually those damaging to Democrats.
The Hunter Biden laptop scandal is just one high-profile example.
Facebook will adopt a “community feedback” model for X moving forward. It’s not perfect, but it beats the censorship measures the platform has had for a very long time.
How bad is it? What other platforms govern freedom of expression? Rappaport has some answers.
“I’ve been blocked on Facebook and Instagram. Maybe I should hear this so I don’t get banned for saying I was blocked,” Rapaport said in his latest blog post. “I was threatened to have my account de-monetized and deleted from the platform.
“What did you say? I said something.”
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He cited one example of how ridiculous social media filters are.
“My worst comment on social media was on January 6, 2021… I said that if there had been people from BLEEP storming the Capitol, there would have been hundreds of bodies outside D.C.,” he said. It is likely that the word that was omitted was “black.”
“For 150 days I was in solitary confinement on Facebook. They locked me out there,” he said of the fallout. “We agree or disagree with this opinion, it does not deserve censorship.”
But it was.
That’s why Rapaport approved Facebook’s new policy, ignoring the highly unfair policy that often punished right-leaning voices.
Now, compare this approach to how late-night preachers reacted to Zuckerberg’s update. Both Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert mocked Zuckerberg’s decisionpining for a system that imposes restrictions on speech.
This is what their party masters demand. And they do as they are told.
“No, don’t trust society. The worst thing about social media is other people,” Colbert joked.
He added that this is another sign that the tech oligarchs are “kissing up” President-elect Donald Trump. Kimmel took a similar stance.
Different display. Same scenario.
“Imagine being one of the richest people in the world and making the decision to declare the end of truth as we know it, while dressed as McLemore in 2014…”
He added: “Mark Zuckerberg is getting rid of any dignity he had in Trump’s golden toilet, or the fact that he is turning into one of the golden girls.”
Neither star appears to support freedom of expression. Heck, Colbert has previously embraced removing Dr. Seuss books from public places.
Rapaport knows what it means to cancel. Far-left voices have tried to do precisely this over the past year. His pro-Israel stances angered the pro-Palestinian crowd adjacent to the Antifa movement.
If he wasn’t a free speech warrior before, he certainly is now.
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