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    Remember when Brazil banned Twitter because Elon Musk broke the law. And the liberals said that this was an attack on freedom of expression and that the judges of the Brazilian Supreme Court were not elected (ignoring the fact that the same thing happens in the US).

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        I think it was Michael Parenti that said something like: “If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed, but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike, this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system. if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.” These people will never be happy with anything that isn’t full submission to the US.

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    Awesome. I love logging onto Facebook or Instagram and seeing hateful content directed at minorities and thinly veiled neonazisim, but we certainly can’t let those pesky Ruskis keep on spreading misinformation!the-democrat

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    Ant Blinken says african stream is propaganda and these doing a tik tok ban. Somehow twitter interfering with the election in certain ways, proliferating the far right, having a CEO incite violence towards a sitting president and doesnt warrant a response. In fact it gets him extended DoD contracts (despite his documented refusal to to have Starlink support Ukraine attack. Not defending the dod or anyone just curious to me) Whats really good? cat-confused

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      I don’t think tiktok will be banned. It’s controlled by the CIA. Read the mintpressnews article about it.

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      The country has placed the entire fate of climate change into the hands of Musk. Obviously Musk would never give up the opportunity for contracts out of petty squabbles, but such incompetence gives him a leverage because basically the economy relies on his dumbass company

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    damn, they got African Stream?! wishing a slow and painful death to amerikkka

    well it is twitter and meta so shouldn’t be surprised abt the platforms they got banned from. plus youtube’s been trigger happy w/ its content policy for a long time now

    e: just meta, not twitter

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        Twitter

        Another American platform.

        Telegram

        A platform recently compromised by the French government.

        The Cold War 2.0 information crackdown is already here. At first it will be the low-hanging fruit: channels on corporate platforms. After that will be more subtle McCarthy-type pressure, then overt. If anyone is doing anything important on a corporate platform, it’s time to make alternative-communication plans now.

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              I don’t use it personally, but from my understanding Telegram has been moving in the “everything app” direction. While it does group chats and DMs (like Matrix), it is also used as a publishing platform (like Twitter or Substack), among other things. This model of doing a million different things under one brand name is something I don’t expect any free software platform to take up any time soon. They typically prefer to choose one problem, solve it, and keep the project focused within that scope, whereas commercial platforms just acquire firms and assimilate their functionality under their branding (or, less successfully, decide randomly one day that the micro-blogging platform is now a video streaming platform suitable for presidential campaign launch announcements).

              The tendency for tire manufacturers to become the de facto review board for luxury restaurants is a uniquely capitalist phenomenon.

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                Ah, that makes sense then. I think It’d be cool to see an open-source take on the “everything app”, my (limited) experience with WeChat is quite positive. It’s incredibly convenient to just have one login that can grant you access to everything you’d ever need and have it be widely enough used for it to be actually useful.

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    I like African Stream a lot they literally just post marxist stuff, fuck amerikkka.

    I assume they’ll be banned on reddit soon then, they’ve been personally posting to /r/greenandpleasant and a few other leftist places. Super successful on tiktok as well.

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    told you guys. everything is controlled by the CIA or state department
    I REALLY want to jump ship to Russian or Chinese controlled sites. It would be good propaganda to see a large amount of users use “bad country” websites in order to avoid CIA botting and censorship. Reddit is completely unusable now due to CIA/Israeli bots. I do NOT want to see pro-genocidal content.

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        before my last reddit ip ban I was only on hobby subs and thedeprogram, yet I saw CIA and Israeli propaganda in the hobby subs. i was banned from a hobby sub for debunking a claim and later on I accidentally commented within the sub which got me an IP ban (which is easily circumventible btw).

        it’s been a strategy for at a few years (I’d say approx 2020) to indoctrinate people who are not into politics or current affairs