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[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Reddit is shadow banning people like crazy as well. This is scary

what's the difference between government censorship, and corporate censorship by organs closely tied to the government, and corporate censorship by organs closely tied to the government where certain phrases are randomly declared punishable by death?

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[–] RabbitBBQ@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (3 children)

To be fair, American democracy was replaced with corporate Government a long long time ago.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago

Ya, but now you can't talk about it.

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[–] Billybob22@feddit.uk 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shut down and delete your data on your US tech accounts. Their business's are worthless without our accounts.

It's a process, start today! With the easy ones and work towards the hard ones.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 36 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Everyone needs to GTFO facebook. We can hardly do it because every other HOA and School PTA is there, but we get stop using messenger and stop having personal discussions over there.

[–] Jimius@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Don't accept it when organizations require you to sign up and hand over personal information to private and commercial third parties. Requiring Facebook is an active attempt at curbing participation.

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[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

any terminally ill people down to go down in history as a fucking chad with a rifle or a drone?? anyone??

[–] tree_frog@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

We're all terminally ill on a long enough timeline.

So... Was that an offer to be our chad?

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

im canadian, i wouldnt want to cause ww3 by assassinating a foreign leader.

Sorry Americans, this is your mess, you gotta clean it up this time :/

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[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Wait, corporate government, like in cyberpunk?

[–] Silk@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

I'm reading the Sprawl trilogy along with Shelved By Genre, and Gibson harps on the note that 'the Ultra Rich aren't human', and has some great examples in the books.

I think he was very observant, and Musk makes it so blatant.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 days ago

Basically. I mean there's a bit more to it than that but it's the core idea. It's also the goal of several tech oligarchs which is why he doesn't want the peons to be able to talk about it.

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[–] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 105 points 4 days ago (4 children)

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism

Next Reddit will start banning you for upvoting anything about it.

Please share this document far and wide. People need to understand what's going on, to stop it.

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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 158 points 4 days ago (41 children)

Pay no attention to the fascist behind the curtain.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 53 points 4 days ago

The fascist in front of the curtain is loud enough already.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 126 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Streisand effect: I had never heard of the “network state” until now. Uh, thanks for being such an asshole, Zuck!

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 48 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I just found out like a week ago. Look up techno feudalism. Apparently these guys have been talking about it for a long time.

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[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no

WATCH THIS IF YOURE NOT SURE WHAT HES BANNING THE DISCUSSION OF

It's terrifying

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[–] segabased@lemmy.zip 94 points 4 days ago (22 children)

This man has a bunker and everything. He's scared shitless and he is ready to hide. Their assets need to be seized and accounts drained

[–] Benjaben@lemmy.world 57 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

That's not a joke, ALL these dudes have extensive doomsday prep. Secure facilities, staffed and stocked. There's a ton of reporting on it. They're gonna fare a LOT better than we are if shit gets really outta hand. Unless we do something about them before it gets to that point, anyway.

Edit: added a detail

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Quit Meta... problem solved

[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have another solution, it's a little bloodier

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[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] TranslateErr0r@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The real title:

"Meta rep flagged 'critiques of tech industry figures' as 'sensitive or controversial content'"

Delay, Deny, [redacted]

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Speedrunning to cp2077, starting with the corpo wars

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 82 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Of course they are. They'll ban discussion of democracy next, and then voting.

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[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh, this is the 15-minute cities they’re scared of.

Fucking insane how these people twist a good idea in to something evil, then support the evil version of that idea.

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[–] HappinessPill@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Welcome to Facebook the capital of Meta country, jokes aside, they are banning because it's a long term thing and they are scared of it derailing if too many people know.

[–] KelvarIW@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I had never heard about the "Network State" concept before, but now I hate it, because Zuckerberg sure as hell loves it

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 63 points 4 days ago (4 children)

We are already living in a country being run by Elon Musk.

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[–] chellybeans@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Guess we can consider that a confession.

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