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by DisjointedHunt 1268 days ago
I should have been more specific so asinine comments like these who can't read the story before commenting don't show up:

Imagine if the Trump Administration had people who donated predominantly to their cause making decisions at the highest level at Social Media companies and directly affecting policy of posts being taken down such as Jim Baker asking why "don't be afraid of COVID" isn't taken down.

Imagine if employees at social media companies took the view that they knew better than abortion and lgbt activists and overruled coverage of their protests, flagged their tweets, locked their accounts from gaining any distribution.

Imagine if the Trump administration established a department within the San Francisco field office of the FBI to EXCLUSIVELY check social media feeds of their political opponents to have them reported to twitter under government pressure to take them down.

I thought all of this was implied and anyone reading this comment would at least acknowledge the severity of these revelations, but here we are.