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When Egyptian government turns off internet during a revolution, we call them tyrants and celebrate Twitter for allowing people to communicate freely. Yet, when
by obvfaaaake 6y ago
When Egyptian government turns off internet during a revolution, we call them tyrants and celebrate Twitter for allowing people to communicate freely. Yet, when US turns off a side of an argument the marginally elected majority disagrees with, we praise it.
Everything is fine...
- jeromegv 6y agoOne side of the argument? Or armed insurrectionists?
- Acrobatic_Road 6y agoinsurrectionists? more like a unorganized group of baffoons. To whoever flagged me: truth hurts.
- linuxftw 6y agoAre you generalizing 10's of millions of people?
- camel_Snake 6y agonot generalizing. new marist polling shows ~20% of Republicans approved of the supporters breaking into the US capitol. back of napkin math puts that around 16 million people. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/most-americans-blame-trump-for-capitol-attack-but-are-split-on-his-removal https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/most-americans-blame-t...
- vc8f6vVV 6y agoNot US. Amazon is a private company. Their main goal is to make money (i.e. increase company value for their investors), they decided that this activity will eventually hurt making money. End of story.
- paulnechifor 6y agoAmericans sure like this bad faith argument. If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck... If you're free to communicate anything on public owned spaces on the internet but there are no public owned spaces on the internet, then you're not free to communicate on the internet. You've privatized censorship and still call yourself a free country.
- prh8 6y agoTo be on a tech site and say US == Amazon is basically trolling.