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meekmockmook

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    Comment #25772491

    Well, that's okay. I'll be able to buy acid at Walgreens in 15 years anyway.

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    Comment #25771679

    They didn't ban the dictators and warlords who preach genocidal rhetoric every day. They didn't ban the constant death threats from teenagers against each other and random celebrit…

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    Comment #25771177

    Silicon Valley has failed humanity. The governments of the world must ban targeted algorithms and initiate antitrust enforcement against GAFA immediately so this can never happen a…

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    Comment #25770479

    That's right. There's now absolutely zero doubt GAFA works together to determine which content gets elevated and which gets deplatformed. Choices are made in coordination as the Tr…

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    Comment #25770160

    No shit. It wasn't some broken, barely adopted start up that created this mess. It was the largest social platform in the world where this insanity spread for years. Break up GAFA …

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    Comment #25763695

    This can't continue the way it's been going.

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    Comment #25757029

    Not just the IRL jannies, but the ones who police the platform too. They are contractors who make minimum wage and are exposed to horrors every single day with little psychological…

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    Comment #25757014

    I know it's hard when you've got a family to feed, but any FB employee who won't consider quitting at this point has made a deal with the devil.

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    Comment #25755595

    Given our technological superiority over the majority of the world, why are states with far less resources vaccinating their populations so much faster? What can California do to s…

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    Comment #25755575

    I am concerned this is being used as a pretext to ban encryption or push for backdoors.

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    Comment #25753885

    Well, yeah, it's a dictatorship run by warlords. It turns out that once you shut down the leader of the world's largest empire, every tinpot thug who fears losing their ability to …

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    Comment #25753588

    I saw Twitter's Public Policy team melting down about this. What did they expect? Pandora's Box has been opened

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    Comment #25751166

    It's not apathy, it's fatigue. It's been 10 months of terror and horror and people use whatever mental tricks they can to stay sane.

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    Comment #25751066

    I'm already seeing people who I otherwise politically agree with demand that Telegram be decrypted. Madness.

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    Comment #25736748

    "Remember what the MPAA says; Horrific, Deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words"

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    Comment #25736635

    I hope Baked Alaska is arrested.

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    Comment #25734579

    My hot take? I think they are, yes. Information is literally everything.

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    Comment #25734548

    You're 100 percent right.. i just think it's turned into a buzzword for "foreigners fighting amongst themselves" since the War on Terror began.

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    Comment #25734278

    Tell that to my favorite ice cream shop that was smashed to bits on Melrose. Or the synagogues on Fairfax that were defiled. Or the vehicles all over DTLA that were set on fire. Or…

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    Comment #25734079

    I strongly disagree with Rowling's bizarre obsession but she faced months of death threats while Twitter looked the other way.

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    Comment #25733993

    Of course I reported them. Nothing happened. Twitter was totally supportive of everything that happened in June. They even put up billboards bragging about how their platform helpe…

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    Comment #25733822

    Yeah, the idea of GAFA as left wing is ludicrous. Sure, they plaster the internet with those ugly flat art cartoons of diverse people working together, (Corporate Memphis, I've lea…

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    Comment #25733661

    I mean, I watched as people on Twitter and Facebook Live coordinated to torch one of my favorites neighborhoods in L.A. this summer. I saw looters tweet about breaking into a drug …