• AtHeartEngineer
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    18 hours ago

    This would have been helpful 10+ years ago

  • @MuskyMelon
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    1115 hours ago

    If someone got banned on Reddit for calling Clarence Thomas a house slave like Stephen Candie in Django, can he file a complaint with the FC for tech censorship? Asking for a friend.

  • @bitjunkie
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    271 day ago

    Tomorrow: Trump installs loyalist with zero qualifications as head of FCC.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 day ago

      You misunderstand. This IS Trump’s chosen stooge. FTC Chairman Carr.

      He’s complaining about tech companies “censoring” conservatives for “speaking their minds”, aka being hateful bigots and spreading misinformation during a public health crisis.

    • @skepller
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      71 day ago

      Yeah, I wonder how long until Elmo arrives to “make the FTC more efficient” lmao

      • @Tronn4
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        51 day ago

        We need fELONs crack team from X -said no one

  • @breadsmasher
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    922 days ago

    so musk will be investigated over how he runs xitter, right?

    • Em Adespoton
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      682 days ago

      He’s already investigated himself and found that Xitter is a bastion of freedom. Same goes for Truth Social.

  • @[email protected]
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    582 days ago

    Compelled speech it is then?

    So when are bakers going to be forced to bake cakes for gay couples?

    Oh, right, hypocrites. Naturally.

    • @TropicalDingdong
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      272 days ago

      Reveling in their hypocrisy won’t save anything.

      They don’t care that you think and I see them as hypocrites.

    • @daddy32
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      121 day ago

      It’s not censorship, it’s “censorship”. You know, like banning nazis, calls for harming women etc.

      • @rottingleaf
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        51 day ago

        Generally speaking, when a much stronger party forces upon you a mechanism, it doesn’t work in your favor. Whether they call it free speech (for bot campaigns too, while you get banned) or moderation (your opponent insults you in every comment, and they are fine, but you insult them once - you’re banned).

        The super weirdest thing is that people again and again believe that the strong party belonging to “their” side will do things right this time in history.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 days ago

      It should be interesting to see how it plays out, indeed.

      I don’t expect the US will entirely ban all forms of content moderation. I wouldn’t be surprised if the US moved more in the direction of the EU Digital Services Act: required transparency on recommendation algorithms and some sort of NGO trusted flagger system.

      Also, similar (but opposite) to Splinternet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect

  • Beej Jorgensen
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    272 days ago

    And by “free speech”, we mean you have to publish what we tell you.

  • ComradeSharkfucker
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    2 days ago

    When they say tech censorship they mean people should be allowed to say bigoted shit

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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    182 days ago

    Good thing we have a fair and balanced FTC? Right?

    Lets see:

    We have 2 Democrats 2 Republicans, and…

    oh… one vacant seat 👀

    (also, one of the Democrats was appointed in 2018, we all know who was president then)

  • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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    102 days ago

    I know the point of this is probably just intimidation but 35 companies? Are there 35 social networks that moderate content? Why is Apple included? Is there some conspiracy theory that they’re censoring conservative App Store reviews?