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It's incredible that people here are celebrating tech companies censoring the president. You'd have to be extremely shortsighted or naive to think this is a go

by disown 6y ago

It's incredible that people here are celebrating tech companies censoring the president. You'd have to be extremely shortsighted or naive to think this is a good thing. Every day, many here are screaming zuckerburg is evil, twitter is horrible, break up tech companies. And yet the same people are celebrating these tech companies censoring a government official.

flowerlad 6y ago
If a terrorist was using Twitter to activate his bot network wouldn't you expect Twitter to disable the account?
- disown 6y ago
  Good god, people like you are the real problem. I'd bet you cry and whine if you were banned. Also if you are right then we are fucked since 70+ million people voted for the "terrorist". But of course you don't really believe it. Just spewing hyper partisan bullshit. Also, in his censored tweets, he was asking his supporters to go home peacefully. So more like defusing the situation rather than igniting it. But regardless, you'd have to be an idiot to support a bunch of unelected tech elites censoring elected government officials. Whether it is democrat or republican or independent, sane people would say it's not for the tech elites to decide which politician gets to say what. For all the talk about "democracy", those purporting to support it sure love censorship and authoritarianism.
  - tempjan6 6y ago
    > we are fucked since 70+ million people voted for the ... Are you only now realizing we're fucked? We have the most Corona virus death rates of any country in the world, our stature in the world has never been lower, China is making deals with EU [1] and Asia, leaving out the US, Russia is hacking us with impunity and offering bounties on our soldiers in Afghanistan, ... I could go on and and on. We were fucked 4 years ago when we elected a president whose solve qualification is that he is a white supremacist. It will take us many years to unfuck ourselves. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/business/china-eu-investment-deal.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/business/china-eu-investm...
- MrRiddle 6y ago
  Terrorist that won 80 million votes, and from where I stand, plausible stolen elections. But hey, as long as Twitter and FB do what you like it’s fine?

by disown 6y ago

flowerlad 6y ago

If a terrorist was using Twitter to activate his bot network wouldn't you expect Twitter to disable the account?

disown 6y ago
Good god, people like you are the real problem. I'd bet you cry and whine if you were banned. Also if you are right then we are fucked since 70+ million people voted for the "terrorist". But of course you don't really believe it. Just spewing hyper partisan bullshit. Also, in his censored tweets, he was asking his supporters to go home peacefully. So more like defusing the situation rather than igniting it. But regardless, you'd have to be an idiot to support a bunch of unelected tech elites censoring elected government officials. Whether it is democrat or republican or independent, sane people would say it's not for the tech elites to decide which politician gets to say what. For all the talk about "democracy", those purporting to support it sure love censorship and authoritarianism.
- tempjan6 6y ago
  > we are fucked since 70+ million people voted for the ... Are you only now realizing we're fucked? We have the most Corona virus death rates of any country in the world, our stature in the world has never been lower, China is making deals with EU [1] and Asia, leaving out the US, Russia is hacking us with impunity and offering bounties on our soldiers in Afghanistan, ... I could go on and and on. We were fucked 4 years ago when we elected a president whose solve qualification is that he is a white supremacist. It will take us many years to unfuck ourselves. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/business/china-eu-investment-deal.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/business/china-eu-investm...
MrRiddle 6y ago
Terrorist that won 80 million votes, and from where I stand, plausible stolen elections. But hey, as long as Twitter and FB do what you like it’s fine?