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by realgeniushere 1302 days ago
You know until 2016/2017 we let people post just about anything they wanted on all of the major platforms. Maybe not racial slurs and direct threats, but everything else was good. It was like that for a very long time and mostly everyone was fine with it. All that changed is that liberals didn’t like the political results—far right ideas becoming more popular and organized.
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Yea, Glenn Greenwald succinctly expressed this here: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1593659184175792130

MSM + Social Media platforms and people that run them are extremely lop-sided. It is basically all liberals. What go could go wrong?

Half of the country feels disenfranchised as expressed in the Trump poll.

It's scary how more divided we've become since Jan 8 thread when Trump was banned. This feels way more balanced and less toxic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25691912