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Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown

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Re: Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown

#5
About the internet (and specifically social media):

> The conflict entrepreneurs are taking advantage of us and we are losing our agency, and we have to take that back. We have to turn it off, and do you have to give it back to the community and caring about our neighbors and bettering ourselves, exercising, sleeping and all of these things that this thing takes away from us.

Wow these guys really want to go back to the 50s. I heard that saying before when project 2025 was being discussed but I didn't realise it was that literal.

The article does go on to say that the senator that made this statement has not reduced his own presence on Twitter etc in any way ;)

Re: Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown

#9
I thought the killer was trans and that's why he killed Kirk. Then I've heard it was because of his trans girlfriend. Then it was because he was in a leftist family who talked about Kirk poorly. Then it was because he was a leftist in a right wing family.

Now it's internet that caused this.

I'd like everyone to chill and wait for the trial.

Re: Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown

#10
> Yesterday, Utah Governor Spencer Cox called the Internet a “cancer”; today he added that “cancer probably isn’t a strong enough word,” likening social media to the equivalent of “fentanyl” in destroying young minds and taking lives

Quite ironic given how Trump, Kirk etc. came into power.

Is this a case of self aware wolf?

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