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imiric ◴[] No.43748550[source]
Chilling. Governments weaponizing information they have on citizens is textbook dystopian. The lack of oversight on social media platforms that allows this to happen is incompetence at best, and complicity at worst.

As more governments slip into autocracies, similar scenarios are likely happening in other countries as well, and we just don't know about it. The fact that US social media platforms are operated by people supportive of an aspiring autocrat should be a red flag for anyone still using them. Especially for citizens of the US, where the line between the government and corporations gets thinner by the day.

These are truly bizarre and frightening times for anyone outside of this system.

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Asooka[dead post] ◴[] No.43748820[source]
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ben_w ◴[] No.43750094[source]
I find it quite eye-rolling that people still talk like (1) Pfizer's is the only vaccine in the world, (2) that the various vaccines' rollout was itself the trial.

Not heard of anyone getting debanked for it — "u", sure, but not "a".

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