• themurphy@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Do it. Let the US be a closed censored state like it desperately wants to be.

    They’ll even put the hashtag #freespeach when they deliver their ban.

    • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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      Free speech means the government will let citizens criticise them or communicate other political opinions without sanctions. It does not mean they can’t ban one channel of communication when they are worried foreign actors use it to take advantage of the citizens. There are plenty other channels through which the citizens can communicate their opinions.

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        16 hours ago

        “Worried foreign actors use it to take advantage if the citizens” you mean like Cambridge analytica and facebook? Yet all the government did to them is go after their competitors and give them more power. How strange.

        Yall are so thirsty for the boot because its currently stepping on the evil boogeyman our government has trained us to hate

        Especially now that trumps coming into power its shocking so much people on here are excited for the government to shut down an app. What makes yall think they wont target lemmy/mastadon/etc once theyre the apps being used show people the genocides being commited by the US and israel

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            10 hours ago

            Yeah which is just xenophobic and dumb and doesnt protect Americans. We need comprehensive data protection laws and transparent algorithms not laws that help monopolies gain even more power to manipulate us

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        1 day ago

        It’s a .ml tankie, they only care because it’s a Chinese company, guaranteed if it was like a UK company or something they wouldn’t say a word about it lmao