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Re:Disinformation Evolved in 2020 by fortuna86 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:29PM (#27961457)
1. Limited and transparent moderation occurs everywhere in society, and isn't remotely the same thing censorship.

2. No private tech company makes their content moderation "in collusion with governments". Not in the US at least.

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Re:Disinformation Evolved in 2020 by penultimatebro on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:29PM (#27967585)
Re: #2

https://mobile.twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/14157273544632...

Sorry, thought stuff like this was more well known. They’ve been colluding for quite a while but now it’s so brazenly open the White House press secretary is mentioning it in press conferences.

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Re:Disinformation Evolved in 2020 by fortuna86 on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:35PM (#27968002)
That was a suggestion Facebook can (and has) ignore. If you are implying that was some kind of legally binding edict, you would be wrong.

I agree it was out of bounds to make a comment like that from the WH, but lets be clear what it was and wasn't. It wasn't political, it was public health. And it wasn't an order, it was a request.

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