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by laughing_man 115 days ago
Not since the Biden administration, anyway. During covid they made sure social media site black-holed information they didn't want people to see.
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Another lie. The government has the same right to politely request sites to remove disinformation as you and I do. No one "made sure" of any such thing.
Eh. Asking sites to remove information while concurrently litigating against them is very "nice site you have there, shame if something were to happen to it."

The real issue here is that accusations of hypocrisy are misdirection. Two wrongs don't make a right and it's not a competition to see which government can screw people worse.

If your murder rate is up 300% and your defense is "well what about the murder rate in <other country>", the most conspicuous thing about that response is that it contains zero absolution from your murder rate being up 300%. The same is true of the censorship rate.

That's kind of a juvenile view of how power works.
but is prevalent in the America... that is what our society is going down the path it is going...
Da, tovarisch.
You'd almost be better off in Russia (since you already speak the language) - a lot more freedom there than here with us
Just like someone walking into a bank with a shotgun can politely ask for money?
A nation whose public health agencies don't fight the deliberate spread of disinformation is a very sick nation, or soon will be.
The problem is any mechanism you put into place to fight "disinformation" will be used to suppress information the government doesn't like.

Covid is a great example, since most of the disinformation was coming from public health authorities, and people who were skeptical about vaccine safety and effectiveness were ruthlessly suppressed online. People who turned out to be right.

People who turned out to be right about jack shit.

When you peddle horse paste during a pandemic, you can expect some pushback. It's part of what my taxes pay for.

That's exactly what I'm talking about. You're confidently calling Ivermectin, a drug that's been used in human medicine for decades, "horse paste". You're just ingesting propaganda without putting any thought into it.