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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by riffic on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:12PM (#24794782)
Facebook and Twitter make money through the sale of advertisements and the sale of data for market research purposes. If their power needs to be moderated, people can do like the old television days and boycott their advertisers:

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/28/arts/a-boycott-of-tv-adve...

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by manigandham on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:20PM (#24794873)
The "old television days" are long over. Considering the size of these companies and their advertisers, there is no way that boycotting or other protest would make any impact.

You're dealing in fantasies from an obsolete era.

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Re:Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reig... by username90 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @06:27PM (#24794951)
Basically everyone advertises there. So boycotting their advertisers is like boycotting earning money because your disagree with the government and want to hurt their tax revenue.
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