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linotype ◴[] No.44314122[source]
You’re naive if you think they’ll stop with foreign students.
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Mountain_Skies ◴[] No.44314226[source]
True. After seeing how the tech companies, media, and Biden administration acted during the pandemic, you should be worried about how quickly this can spin out of control.
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rsingel ◴[] No.44314258[source]
Lol. The Biden administration who simply asked platforms to enforce their own terms of service?

Maybe you're better example is the Trump administration saying it's going to withhold transportation funding from cities because citizens their dared to protest him, issued presidential orders against law firms that represented people suing him, pulled the security clearances of people who dared to say that the 2020 election was not stolen, and threatened trees and charges against a former DHS official who wrote an unflattering op-ed in the Washington Post.

One of these is not like the other

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frollogaston ◴[] No.44314401[source]
I think the other comment is referring to Biden administration coercing social media companies on covid19 content ranking until a judge stopped it. Idk if this was related, but YouTube had covid19 vaccine videos promoted to a special place on its front page for over a year.
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rsingel ◴[] No.44314814[source]
Flagging content that's against terms of service, foreign interference or illegal (like voting by text scams) is hardly coercion.

The Supreme Court threw out the case.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c100l6jrjvno

The Twitter files were a nothing burger

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frollogaston ◴[] No.44315228[source]
It wasn't about foreign interference or scams.
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1. rsingel ◴[] No.44330877[source]
Yes, actually it was. Go actually read the lawsuit. It sought to ban federal agencies across the board, including CISA, from communicating at all with social platforms.

Gateway Pundit was one of the plaintiffs and he sued because Twitter banned him for repeated election disinfo (e.g. stolen elections) and he was mad that CISA contradicted him. So was Trump who fired Chris Krebs for having the audacity to say the election wasn't stolen.

The entire lawsuit was just a part of a right-wing grievance campaign against the idea of social platforms, NGOs, or federal agencies doing any work to moderate social platforms.

The world is stupider for that campaign largely suceeding and come the next pandemic, thousands or millions could die thanks to platforms being afraid to do even the most basic moderation.