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which 'wing' cheered loudly when every platform openly suppressed their political opponents during the last decade, and frothed in impotent rage when one of tho
by b65e8bee43c2ed0 8mo ago
which 'wing' cheered loudly when every platform openly suppressed their political opponents during the last decade, and frothed in impotent rage when one of those platforms unexpectedly changed hands and ceased the censorship?
somehow, censorship is only bad when the wrong side does it. when the correct side does it, it's justified and necessary for your democracies to survive.
- mcpar-land 8mo agoI don't know. Which wing, and what's an example of the suppression they did openly?
- rootusrootus 8mo agoI sometimes wonder how serious these sorts of sentiments are. Like, when you claim something easily disproven and openly partisan, do you know that and do it anyway, or is your internal dialog one of righteous outrage?
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 8mo agofor example, go ahead and easily disprove that Twitter, Google, and Facebook had banned the sitting president of the United States in January 2021, simultaneously and voluntarily.
- uncletscollie 8mo ago[dead]
- rootusrootus 8mo agoSo a couple platforms banning one guy from continuing to attempt an insurrection of the federal government counts as suppressing your political opponents? Would you assert that politicians are by definition untouchable, no matter what they do? Literally. I know your man bragged about this, but was he joking or not?
- b65e8bee43c2ed0 8mo agoright. in other words, it was justified and necessary for your democracy to survive. next example: which 'wing' cheered at COVID misinformation, such as the lab leak theory, being voluntarily suppressed by every platform?
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- derbOac 8mo agoI think it's questionable whether the censorship has ceased. It's just done less transparently and blamed on "the algorithm". There's an article about it now on the front page of HN. Not disagreeing with the need of a reminder that there was censorship from the left though.