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"..ruled by our laws" = "Content under our political control"

• spiderfarmer 8mo ago
  Try criticising ICE on the recently freed Tiktok
• ben_w 8mo ago
  Which applies equally well to the US, US law, and US social media. What you get to choose is not the mere existence of that control, but given that both the EU and the US are democratically governed*, what that control means. * with differences: states are sovreign in EU, send representatives to Brussels; states are not sovreign in US, send representatives to Washington; differences of direct vs. indirect representation; US has a person who is president, EU has presidents plural of sub-institutions and in one case that's a country not a person; differences of who brings forward new laws to be debated (does anyone in US congress/senate even read laws before voting?); coallitions in EU, two party system in US; etc., but still both democratic