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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by threwr234434 on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:10PM (#23224263)
The very first multi-national companies were neck deep in looting India and smuggling opium to China. The American founding fathers were very aware of this.
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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by koheripbal on Monday May 18, 2020 @02:37PM (#23226598)
I don't see what this has to do with this conversation. Those companies were not censoring coffee shop or bar conversations of citizens WITHIN the United States.

We aren't talking about economic monopoly exploitation - we're talking about monopoly control over domestic communications.

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Re:Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube by Ericson2314 on Monday May 18, 2020 @12:31PM (#23224604)
We were fanboys enough to use the East India Company flag, too.
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