This includes some porn subreddits as well as subreddits like /r/Drugs. Apparently due to being “unmoderated”, but some were not. What are your thoughts?
Edit: apparently also subreddits like /r/transgender_surgeries are banned too. Definitely feels politically motivated. Edit 2: seems like at least some (?) bans are being undone, like the above mentioned ones.
In fascism, the state and business essentially become one entity. These corporations just see the writing on the wall, and I’m sure many of them are doing it purely out of self-preservation.
Others probably have some romantic view of industry in Nazi Germany, and think they can glom onto the fascists and become the next Hugo Boss or Volkswagon.
I guess, but as I said, I did not expect the corpos of America that have basically bought the government through lobbyists to be afraid of that. Especially the tech giants, who could probably reshape public opinion with a turn of a dial on their algorithms.
Musk and his companies certainly expect that, but I am skeptical of the others to join in this late.
Both explanations are possible but they seem unlikely to me. I feel like I am missing a piece of the puzzle.
I think there will be an event where a company or executive (or both) get directly targeted and destroyed and/or killed, and people will start to realize what game they’re actually playing here.
And all (well, most… there will be some that he fucks over in spite of their support) the corpos that bent the knee will be breathing sighs of relief.
Most of this only works if you play along. If they all just said no, there would be nothing like this. The only real threat is to Google because it’s a legit monopoly. I don’t see what a substantial executive branch threat would be on any of the social medias. The TikTok thing only happened due to the China tag.
I think a company will say “no” to Trump/Elon at some point, and they will make an example of the company and/or executives that work there.
This is a different game now. They will straight up kill people if they feel like they need to.
Not typically a bill burr fan, but he has a great schtick on corporations. He labels them as modern mafia, legalized. The only reason the CEOs aren’t whacking each other is it’s all a legal game now. He talked about this at length regarding Luigi.
So if you think about the corporate world in the context of mafia culture and bosses, it makes more sense. They simply use lawyers and politics instead of guns, mostly. At least until a whistleblower shows up.
Also this keys to the kingdom that our unelected President Musk has, it works like a line item veto. USAID allegedly fucked with him in his playing both sides of the war in Ukraine, and they were the first line item veto. I’m sure he can do ut with individuals. Who would you complain to if your SS# disappeared.
Again, I ask you, where is my tinfoil hat? I feel like I should need one as I type these outlandish things and yet this is the new reality.
When corporations are legally bound to maximize shareholder value then facism is a natural development.
You’re saying they’re going along to get along.
It’s bizarre that anyone would care about a subreddit, unless it’s spite. Basically, oh, you banned incels and nazis? You will be dismantled as a monopoly (or some other ludicrous threat) if you don’t now ban trans. That’s what you get.
As I type that last paragraph I’m thinking of the 1A speech in November that everyone, minus ~300k people on YT, ignored. He promised to search out and go after the moderators, the banners, the shadow banners (who told him about shadow banning?), of all of social media, and punish them. This is likely the “polished” rollout of that directive, per his admin.
Remember, when trump told staff to do things during the first 4 people did a lot of nodding and then did nothing, talked him out of things, talked him into waiting on that, as well as having gaping holes where staff should have been. Now, he gives a directive, and the Project 2025 people and corporate can say “yes sir” and twist that trump directive into whatever shape they like.