The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Meta’s Instagram had allowed a vast child pornography ring to spread without restraint and connect producers and users. Most shocking of all was the revelation that Instagram’s AI warned people of sensitive content but allowed them to see it anyway.

Meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, was apparently too distracted with its censorship of “often-true” content, including testimonies of vaccine side effects, under direct orders from the White House, to focus on the truly bad stuff. …

Still, it’s hard not to be annoyed that so much effort by the US government and contractors like SIO over the last six years went into the illegal censorship of legitimate speech instead of the legal censorship of abhorrent material.