• Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Them: Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard

    Us: Free Palestine

    Them: Terrorist!

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    “activist” even trying to discredit foreign federal bureaus by framing them as politically motivated lmao what a bunch of fucking crooks in the US admin.

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      Oh Rene…what are you doing with the painting of the fallen Madonna with the big boobies?

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    100% “X is an organized crime group”. if you count brainwashing as a crime, which i do.

    they’re manipulating public opinion towards what the rich want to hear. it’s all propaganda.

    elon musk bought twitter to conduct “social engineering” after doing classical engineering before at tesla. it’s all just a way to control what people think, and it’s partially working. the people need to get off commercial social media and use something community-hosted, like the fediverse. to reduce the tinkering with recommendation algorithms and also to reduce the bot army.

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    But Twitter censors all kinds of posts? There is no free speech on Twitter. Just try posting the word cisgendered and see what happens.

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    The US Administration, more importantly a branch of the department of state, condemns French inquiry.

    A lot of the USA are cheering the French on.

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    It is not censorship. This is not a government telling you what to publish or not. This is just finding out how a company is abusing its product to influence politics.

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    Translation help from Fascist English to US English:

    • “activist” = a non-politician whose free speech we don’t like
    • “allow all voices to be heard” / “free speech” = extremist/unconstitutional/propaganda speech which serves the interests of the current fascist regime must be allowed, while every other speech will be labelled as being activist/communist/un-American/…
    • “defend […] all Americans” = at least the part of Americans which we tolerate or haven’t jailed yet (subject to change)
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    Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard, not silence speech they dislike.

    That’s real fucking rich coming from the government that:

    • Removed all references to “trans-” regardless of context.
    • Retaliates against left-leaning press.
    • Calls information they dislike “fake news”.
    • Sends immigrants to concentration camps.
    • goferking (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Don’t forget

      removed funding for weather services or deleted materials related to climate change

      runs from people trying to ask them questions

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        If we’re adding “runs from people trying to ask them questions”, we should be more accurate about it.

        runs from people trying to ask them questions, calling them plants put there by political opponents

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      That because they don’t want free apeech. They want the speech only if its their speech.

    • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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      I’m not even joking, I thought that whoever wrote this tweet was supporting the French investigation when I first read that.

    • NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip
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      No no, you don’t understand. That doesn’t apply to us plebs (US citizens). It only applies to other countries so that the government can checks notes “strongly condemn” them.

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      EU is not much better.
      You have to be real careful with controversial subjects such as not liking genocide.
      And plenty countries have forbidden communism.
      Not to mention not honoring elections in Romania and anulling them, and not letting the winning party participate again.
      Even if it is a horrible right-wing party that won, that is still a mask off moment.

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    Is this the same United States that’s investigating people for having unflattering memes of the vice president on their phone?

    Tell us more about the importance of free speech.

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      It’s the free speech where they cancel broadcasts they don’t like in exchange for approving corporate mergers.