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by CapricornNoble 2214 days ago
>>>Can you imagine any prior administration acting this way?

I wasn't alive for them, but I wouldn't be surprised if Truman or Eisenhower would crush Twitter in the age of McCarthyism. Although they tended to focus on individuals rather than companies or organizations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

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Yep. Truman called the press “paid prostitutes of the mind”.