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by throwaway6250 5y ago
For a bit more context (from the article) Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey personally donated money to groups organizing protests in Nigeria. Twitter also created a special emoji just for the protests.
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by throwaway6250 5y ago
Doesn't the fact that these conservative politicians constantly get elected belie your statement that they are supported by a majority of the population? Trump opposed them all and yet won in 2016 and had a decent showing in 2020. It u
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by throwaway6250 5y ago
Why would Indians want their politics to be dictated by the west? Indians sacrificed blood sweat and tears to get the British out, why should they have to fight to get the Americans out?
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by throwaway6250 5y ago
The idea that companies should be able to control governments is a very american idea, and is pretty much not accepted anywhere else. When a website actively supports destabilizing forces against a nation, the least that nation (and it&#x27
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by throwaway6250 5y ago
Twitter controlling political discourse in America is not imperialism, just corporatocracy. If Americans would like to live under such a system, so be it. Just keep your frankensteins out of our country please.
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by throwaway6250 5y ago
Nigeria is a (albeit flawed) democratic government with elections which the current President won in 2019. Jack Dorsey personally donated to protesters. Twitter also created an emoticon to support them.[1] Then Twitter decides to remove the
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by throwaway6250 5y ago
Kudos to Nigeria. The government, and governmental policies of any country are for their citizens to decide, not for Silicon Valley elites to dictate. Any other time period elites trying to control other countries political affairs would be
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Our Political Divide is No Accident(epsilontheory.com)
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‘Not the World’s Number One’: Chinese Social Media Piles on the U.S.(politico.com)
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by throwaway6250 6y ago
People seem to have the idea that WeChat is some sort of amazing application -- it's not. In fact the only reason why it has the market share it does in China is simply because all competitors are blocked. Some of WeChat's real pa