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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by dmurray on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:36PM (#24236396)
A different interpretation is that those social media platforms keep the dissent monitorable and under control, and the powers that be are quite happy with the status quo. If that was the case, as soon as a platform that was not US-controlled gained a foothold in the US, we'd see a crackdown from the establishment. It would be painted as a tool of a foreign power and shut down or forced to be turned over to a US-based entity.

If that ever happens, we'll know democracy in the US is under threat.

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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by ROARosen on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:49PM (#24236555)
> as soon as a platform that was not US-controlled gained a foothold in the US, we'd see a crackdown from the establishment

Telegram is not US controlled. There is no crackdown from the "establishment". Except if you meant only in situations where there is widespread unrest? If it is not relevant to Facebook here in the US in the first place.

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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by newen on Friday August 21, 2020 @01:26PM (#24236953)
3.5 million monthly active users of Telegram in the US. 80 million MAU of TikTok in the US. Makes a difference. They didn't crack down on TikTok until very recently.
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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by hanniabu on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:24PM (#24238029)
> If that ever happens, we'll know democracy in the US is under threat.

Not to get political or anything, but with the clear election interference with dismantling the USPS and removing sorting machines only in swing states it's clearer than ever that democracy is already currently under threat.

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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by jessaustin on Friday August 21, 2020 @12:47PM (#24236538)
Was there something about TikTok recently?
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Re:Telegram messaging app proves crucial to Belarus protests by exolymph on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:04PM (#24237862)
Democracy in the US has always been under threat, because the elites aren't stupid and realize that letting the masses rule leads to Third Positionism.
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