> On the face of it, the US is a pretty difficult place to simply remove posts Elon Musk exposed that removing content was routine by a large list of US agenci

> On the face of it, the US is a pretty difficult place to simply remove posts Elon Musk exposed that removing content was routine by a large list of US agencies as part of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files Zuckerburg publicly confirmed that the same thing is occuring at facebook. Especially in context of the Biden laptop story for example. This seems to be true here on HN, which is rather surprising. I expected HN to be too small potatoes for the US government. The important legislation to look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countering_Foreign_Propaganda_and_Disinformation_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countering_Foreign_Propaganda_... >In both the House and Senate the bill was included in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017. So this is a department of defense effort; cyber command obviously. Which is quite interesting because in the twitter files, they never mention DoD at all. Most focus was on the FBI. Obviously a factor of national security you might consider? >and has a massive domestic propaganda industry. You have to be careful with this though. What's the attribution here? Snowden never revealed this right, surveillance is obviously true but not necessarily propaganda. There is perhaps the CIA mockingbird program which is still operating, but much smaller then during the cold war; so it's difficult to suggest this is massive. A big one though started under Obama isn't so public to be able to make those conclusions. We are simply seeing the consequences and collapse of the USA journalism because of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2013#Smith%E2%80%93Mundt_Modernization_Act_of_2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization... It's important to note, this is fully bipartisan supported. Seeing from a Canadian point of view where this isn't happening, it's a much worse situation. >You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks. Welp, got shadow banned on HN again for this post. I also see I'm censored and quite negative on the parent comment... i wonder who it was lol... none of my other posts have gone negative votes. I always find it funny when I get shadowbanned on HN and I'm obviously not posting too fast. guess I'll be taking another break from HN?