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Re:Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App St... by diminish on Sunday January 10, 2021 @02:47AM (#25712059)
Calls for violence and election-critics were encouraged by current social media in some countries. It looks like many social media platforms have bias based on the political affinities of their owners.

I see no reason for any government or any party to trust the social media, mobile OS platforms and messaging anymore. A new set of tools is about to loom hopefully.

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Re:Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App St... by lxmorj on Sunday January 10, 2021 @03:29AM (#25712335)
Is this really different than old media? Seems like all networks are biased - these are just more powerful, centralized networks.
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Re:Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App St... by ben_w on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:01AM (#25712562)
> Is this really different than old media

Yes. People never handled daily small talk with their friends and family via the Letters page of e.g. The Times, so it was never antisocial to change newspaper, to boycott a newspaper entirely, or to go without any daily paper at all.

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Re:Ugandan government blocks Google Play Store, Apple App St... by simonh on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:31AM (#25712795)
There are plenty of direct messaging apps and services people can use to continue to do so such as iMessage, WhatsApp, SMS, email and many more.

The issue is publishing services with discoverability where anyone can see or subscribe to your feed, those are more like a letters page and service providers have a clear interest in what they are publishing for you.

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