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Drawing equivalence between Twitter bans and government censorship is the height of western privileged ignorance.

• mc32 5y ago
  Not when the government lobbies the companies for certain viewpoints.
• jrsj 5y ago
  Not when there’s bidirectional communication happening between govt and tech companies on these issues. We’ve seen them coordinate to erase particular stories from the public narrative etc. They literally have manipulated elections by doing this. These companies were engaged in a covert surveillance program on behalf of intelligence agencies too. That by itself makes them effectively an extension of the state.
• scurraorbis 5y ago
  • philistine 5y ago
    The only time I see rank propaganda on HN, it’s about stuff Elon Musk loves, like the blockchain or self-driving cars. I dread what he’ll do to Twitter.
    • scurraorbis 5y ago
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