• zqps
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      Noo we just demand this specific instance of deregulation because… uh, it theoretically might help small businesses!

      Also why would you even care about anything other than short-term GDP increase. Are you some kind of communist?!?

    • Suite404
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      You could, but it would just be limited reach. There is no way to fight back using his own platform beyond just not going there.

      • @GroundedGator@lemmy.world
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        Something that has been bothering me lately. Reasonable people who counter the toxic misinformation leaving the platform only allows the disease to grow and spread. But reality is they weren’t reaching the people that needed the dose of reality anyway. And then I realized that the algorithms have always been the disease, my feeds are my own echo chamber to drive engagement, just as theirs are. I’ve pretty much cut all social networks out. The only way to change minds is honest respectable conversation, and I am not a person to change anyone’s mind.

        We’re fucked

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    This is what the right is doing, while the DNC is censuring their own members for simply encouraging democrats to run against their own apathetic incumbents.

  • Obinice
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    Why would they want to “influence elections”?

    Sounds shady.

    • @alphabethunter@lemmy.world
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      It’s a huge part of the business model. Social Media is valuable for its data on people, and for its ability to manipulate and influence people.

  • @phx@lemmy.ca
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    411 day ago

    Cool. Let’s go with criminal impersonation, defamation, and slander/libel instead them!

  • Archangel
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    972 days ago

    Remember when this stuff was called "the quiet part’, and it was considered bad when you said it out loud?

    Yeah…good times.

  • Phoenixz
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    211 day ago

    Next up: Elmo challenges laws that prohibit murder and child pornography, all in the name of a better world!

  • Bone
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    312 days ago

    And the Fake News crowd goes wild! By the way, that’s conservatives and all of their media.