The next election is gonna be the stuff of nightmares.
I am not even American and I am sweating already.
This isn’t a surprise, Meta’s VP of public policy is literally one of Roger Stone’s Brooks brothers rioters.
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Sad.
Considering the minimal consequences faced by big names involved in J6, it kinda falls into a Pascal’s wager situation.
If Meta allows all the election deniers and deniers lose Meta is out nothing and has made a big pile of money.
If Meta blocks all the election deniers and deniers lose, Meta is out those big piles of money but has otherwise lost nothing.
If Meta allows deniers and deniers win, Meta makes a big pile of money, and isn’t viewed negatively by crazies.
If Meta blocks deniers and deniers win, Meta is not only out big piles of money but also has a group of crazies in power and out for blood side-eyeing them.
So in two situations Meta makes money with no consequence to them, in one they don’t make money but also have no consequence, and the final one they don’t make money but do have consequence. Playing the odds I can understand why they’d take crazies money, even if I don’t agree with it morally.
Not sure what that has to do with Pascal’s wager? That’s specific to God
The idea of Pascals wager is that you lose nothing by believing. Its all either benefits or at least no drawbacks. In much the same way, Meta has only benefits (or at least no drawbacks) by letting deniers advertise.
Well not exactly. The wager is more like, “if God is real, there is an infinite punishment or reward in the afterlife.” So, sucking it up and going to church incurs a finite penalty in this life for an infinite reward in the next. On the other hand, ignoring God and seeking earthly pleasures may have a small positive impact on your life, but in the next, you go to hell and have an infinite punishment.
