On March 03, 2022, I decided to stop writing posts to my chess blog CHESS/Male on Facebook.
Not only has Facebook turned out to be technically highly uncomfortable to sustain a chess blog.
Facebook as such has the severest censorship among the social media platforms. It also spies on the users and sells their data.
Facebook's censorship, however, is not neutral, and it does not consistently and universally apply some fixed rules.
Quite to the contrary. Facebook's censorship is selective; it is biased and ideologically/politically motivated. It is not a platform for moderated free speech — indeed, it is a political weaponization of the internet.
Innocent poetry is censored. References to the articles of outstanding epidemiologists, published in the best medical journals, are censored. Nevertheless, hate speech has always been allowed on Facebook, if it serves particular political interests.
Surprisingly, soon after I made that decision, it became public that Facebook's official policy is to allow hate speech if politically suitable.
To my mind, it is not up to some social media platform or company (Facebook or META) to decide who is right and who is wrong concerning the biolabs, pandemic, and mandatory vaccinations. It is not their business to judge who is committing the war crimes and who is not, whose information is accurate and whose statement is false.
As a supporter of liberalism, freedom of thought, speech, and journalism, I cannot maintain my chess blog on the platform that mocks people's rights. At best, I can defend freedom of speech on Facebook's platform but not develop a chess blog like an advertisement to that's platform's dubious policies.
Unfortunately, recently it has become clear that Google also maintains strong and politically biased censorship. Concerning the current unfortunate war in Ukraine, such policy may lead to hiding the war crimes of one side of the conflict while exaggerating the war crimes of the other side.
Therefore, I am forced to abandon my chess blog on Google Blogger too.
BIG TECH is weaponizing its platforms for political purposes. Therefore, presenting one's chess on such media amounts to the political weaponizing of chess.
