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I think it is because all the big tech companies are eliminating popular dissent concerning the government, which makes many question if the government is in ca
by brobdingnagians 6y ago
I think it is because all the big tech companies are eliminating popular dissent concerning the government, which makes many question if the government is in cahoots and using private companies to further public goals of censorship, which would be more difficult to do directly as government. It smells fishy at the very least.
- dd36 6y agoEliminating dissent?!?
- codingslave 6y agoyes.
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- dukeofdoom 6y agoSure, watch as Biden berates black leaders. Tells one she can't read. Once you secure power, you don't necessarily like sharing it. Its like splitting the loot between thieves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3G7n21p0kY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3G7n21p0kY Lenin after securing power, quickly killed off or imprisoned people in his own communist party that he deemed might pose him a threat. Sadly this included most of the well meaning people and idealists. Hitchens narrates a great and chilling example of this: Iraq's 1979 Fascist Coup, Narrated by Christopher Hitchens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR1X3zV6X5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR1X3zV6X5Y
- dang 6y agoPlease stop using HN for ideological battle. Regardless of which ideology you're battling for, it's not what HN is for, and it destroys what it is for. You've been doing it a lot lately, and we ban that sort of account. I'm not going to ban you right now, because you've also been posting good comments. But if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this, we'd appreciate it.
- dukeofdoom 6y agoOkay, thank you for the warning. I'll refrain from politics on here.