kodyo

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by kodyo 4y ago
This obsession is gross.
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by kodyo 4y ago
I mean, Twitter was so accomodating of warrantless government requests that they built a friggin portal for government agents to submit them. Does that not set off any alarm bells?
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by kodyo 4y ago
The document dump contains evidence of government agents telling Twitter to "look into" things and Twitter responding that they "handled" it. Government thugs don't need to give explicit orders to have their wishes
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by kodyo 4y ago
Was that the only difference? Nothing qualitatively different about the reasons or motivations behind the investigations? Like maybe one was investigated because the candidate was mishandling national secrets in order to avoid freedom of in
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by kodyo 4y ago
The one that Twitter ideologues needed to hear from the FBI to get it to do what the FBI wanted it to do.
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by kodyo 4y ago
The FBI acts on behalf of the state, and the FBI. Trump picked an FBI guy to run the FBI. I don't know why he did it, either.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Are you under the impression that the FBI was acting on behalf of Trump during his presidency?
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by kodyo 4y ago
Twitter took stuff down at the government's request even though they couldn't find a violation of their own ToS, let alone determine that things were illegal.
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by kodyo 4y ago
The FBI serves the state, and itself. If they need to make friends with a leftist to get something done, why would that stop them? I personally find it hard to believe that Crossfire Hurricane was run by a conservative cabal in the FBI, but
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by kodyo 4y ago
A private website that was taking signals from the federal government and taking action on them with no pushback. They were censoring people the government was asking them to censor. The relationship was cozy. It's OK if people are coo
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by kodyo 4y ago
They didn't have to submit high quality reports because they were working with ideological soulmates.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Joking about political figures isn't hate speech.
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by kodyo 4y ago
There are lots of crimes that happen in the USA that should probably take priority for the FBI over people posting jokes on Twitter.
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by kodyo 4y ago
They were going after political speech while ignoring actual crimes.
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by kodyo 4y ago
The corporation and the state partnering to censor speech.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Some people oppose fascism.
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by kodyo 4y ago
You must be in management.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Everybody knows the answer to that one.
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by kodyo 4y ago
The council of which you speak was apparently ineffective enough to get themselves fired, so I don't know how you'd measure that.
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by kodyo 4y ago
The government could do it, too, but there's a proxy war in Ukraine and that takes precedent.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Hopefully it’s an oversight.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Old Twitter banned journalists, too.
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by kodyo 4y ago
If you're over 80, you should probably get vaccinated.
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by kodyo 4y ago
Wait until they hear about what Bill Gates does these days.
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by kodyo 4y ago
> The Fed doesn't take orders from the President though (and prides itself on that) Acting as the currency manipulator for a purported Republic, being unaccountable to the electorate is one of its most repulsive features.
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by kodyo 4y ago
I agree. Western governments are doing just fine delegitimizing themselves as positive forces without our help. They'll either become more transparently honest brutal oligarchies, or they will collapse. I'm good with either direct
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by kodyo 4y ago
Probably Bitcoin. Gold would be fine if there weren't governments.
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by kodyo 4y ago
It's an unambiguously nauseating way to control the lives of billions of humans. We'd be much better off letting banks decide how much they value your deposits, and having a currency that politicians, bureaucrats and bankers can&#
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by kodyo 4y ago
The US government confiscates gold when it wants to.
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by kodyo 4y ago
They’re a banking cartel that controls the supply of the world’s reserve currency. Yes they’ve been active and powerful for a long time.

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