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Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app by paganel on Sunday September 19, 2021 @06:57AM (#28583329)
It was similar to self-censure from Amazon, that is if they wanted to still gain lucrative contracts with the military-industrial complex opposed by the candidate that they banned.

To say nothing of the personal vendetta between the owner of Amazon and said candidate, the owner being the wealthyest man on Earth and directly controlling a big mouth-piece of the media (WashPo). The US is by definition an oligarchic state (the previous president was an oligarch, the current one was put in place by the oligarch enemies of the one before him).

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Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app by ookdatnog on Sunday September 19, 2021 @08:29AM (#28583789)
> It was similar to self-censure from Amazon, that is if they wanted to still gain lucrative contracts with the military-industrial complex opposed by the candidate that they banned.

Sounds like pure speculation.

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Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app by paganel on Sunday September 19, 2021 @09:57AM (#28584344)
It walks and quacks like self-censure in view of future monetary (and not only) gains.

Again, I'm surprised that almost no-one in here (to say nothing of the big media outlets) is not saying anything about the huge conflict of interest involving Bezos and the companies he owns and/or controls.

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Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app by nightwing on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:27AM (#28585063)
Don't you remember people from Google saying that it should not be broken up to be able to prevent "next Trump situation"?

https://www.facebook.com/ProjectVeritas/videos/2445258202376...

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Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app by neonbones on Sunday September 19, 2021 @10:25AM (#28584573)
>The US is by definition an oligarchic state

Yep, I saw a few types of researches before. The US is, by all definitions, an oligarchy.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

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Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app by hhhhdnxndn on Sunday September 19, 2021 @07:09AM (#28583387)
Do you really think the previous president and the current president are enemies?
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Re:Russia restricts opposition election voting app by paganel on Sunday September 19, 2021 @07:36AM (#28583519)
No, I don't think Biden and Trump are enemies, I do think Bezos and Trump are enemies. In fact I tried saying that but because English is not my mother language maybe it came out wrong.
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