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Re:A Xiaomi phone might’ve shipped with a censorship list in... by cycomanic on Friday November 19, 2021 @02:31AM (#29274733)
The difference is that Xiaomi does not own your phone, Twitter does own their platform.

To make it easy. I believe you don't allow anyone to come into your home and give you lectures about politics, but you would be pretty outraged if your homebuilder would have placed a microphone camera into your home and if you say the wrong words, e.g. the toilet stops working.

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Re:A Xiaomi phone might’ve shipped with a censorship list in... by ng12 on Friday November 19, 2021 @03:15AM (#29274953)
I think the line in the sand that defines Xiaomi as a platform and Twitter as something else (?) is entirely arbitrary.
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Re:A Xiaomi phone might’ve shipped with a censorship list in... by cycomanic on Friday November 19, 2021 @06:28AM (#29276128)
Huh? I would say there is a very non-arbitrary difference between buying a phone or logging into some service. I mean in one instance you actually buy a physical thing that you own, for the other you use someone else property.
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