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Re:Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Poli... by aspenmayer on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:49PM (#24876249)
All political correspondence to the public ought be publicly accessible and publicly auditable.
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Re:Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Poli... by nickff on Friday October 23, 2020 @09:51PM (#24876270)
Including phone calls and in-person communication? Many organizations hire or otherwise compel individuals to perform one-to-one communications for the purpose of furthering a political agenda.
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Re:Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Poli... by labster on Friday October 23, 2020 @10:55PM (#24876579)
We tried that during the 1950s with the Communist Party as the early adopter, didn’t work out too well.
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Re:Facebook Seeks Shutdown of NYU Research Project into Poli... by aspenmayer on Saturday October 24, 2020 @03:01AM (#24877481)
If GM killed the electric car, the establishment killed the Communist Party in America.
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