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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by throwaway09223 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:18AM (#31027374)
No, dehosting is a problem common across all socio-economic systems. It is even more prevalent in non-capitalist systems.

Much of the driving force behind today's dehosting is a result of increasing government intrusion into how information is shared on the internet. Congress has been openly threatening tech companies about "misinformation" for the past decade or so and this is a very predictable result.

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Re:Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private by Mezzie on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:45AM (#31027687)
I agree. It's a 'power' problem.

One historical example that comes to mind that has nothing to do with capitalism is the uproar around the translation of the Bible into vernacular languages because it broke the Church's moral information monopoly.

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