This is quite out of character for a lawn mower; lawn mowers shouldn't care.
Not if censoring was part of the deal, then its just a payment.
Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE
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#262Celebrities need to stop giving their sh t to these SM companies and used Federated social media. So they can own their product and not have to worry about being censored for being anti-government. Which is hilarious sentence now because this government so pro free speech!!! sarcasm* But seriously this is something that if my main gig was to create music or some art form, I wouldn't want to be on a corp run platform.…
You expect Billie Eilish fans to be on Mastodon?
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
these topics are controversial for people who support the current US government, they don't want to see it on their tech-news website (even though it's called hacker news, the spirit of the hacker manifesto is not alive here). Funnily enough, these flagged topics seem to spark a lot of conversation, and the voices of the government supporters are not heard here...So they just flag and move on, not even trying to defe…
Most original "hacker" (1980s, 1990s) and open source people are quietly right wing anyway.
like who?
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
> the voices of the government supporters are not heard here This is sad to me because I really want to hear the other perspective, and there is no place that exists (that I know of) for people who disagree with each other to have a real conversation. Nothing left but echo chambers. But I think HN falls into this trap because the down vote button is used when people disagree with the other person, which imo is a misa…
The solution if you really want to hear from the other side is to visit their echo chamber. But most people who talk politics aren't really interested in changing their perspective. That's why these echo chambers exist.
> The solution if you really want to hear from the other side is to visit their echo chamber.
That's not a solution at all, the point isn't to hear unopposed, highly selective talking points, we know all that already, the media is full of it. The point is to see them defend their positions against fairly simple criticism which they block and the mainstream media doesn't address.
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#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is not mind boggling if you don't manipulate quotes to fit for your narrative.
Nice way of avoiding the main question: What deal? There is no new deal between Greenland/Denmark and US.
aaand he never replied
It is like they're brainwashed. Awful.