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Re:Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to demo... by bko on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:08PM (#31170121)
It's somewhat telling that this event is triggering such panic among the political class. Currently every meaningful social network has more or less the same policies and content moderation. If something is banned on one network (facebook, instagram, twitter, tiktok) it'll almost certainly be banned on the rest. Why not right?

But now that ownership of one network changes hands, it's causing everyone to panic. At least we're dropping the facade about what the political class is really asking for. It's no longer a "private platform, they can do what they want". It's now everyone must follow the same rules mandated down from politicians. Before now the leaders of these networks just happened to enforce the policies the political class wanted. They just have to drag the leaders in front of Congress once in a while to get them back in line. But now that one network is at risk of breaking ranks, everyone panics.

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Re:Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to demo... by ragnot on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:09PM (#31170135)
It's a big club. And you ain't in it.
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Re:Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to demo... by dmix on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:13PM (#31170177)
"misinformation" is this eras terrorism scare.

You're starting to see lots of people on Twitter who claim to specialzie in disinformation and monitoring hate speech, it like how all of the Mckinsey types who turned into counter-terrorism consultants around 2004.

Trends in gov contractors, think tanks, and the ex-UN volunteering well connected rich kids are always a good signal of where the slush fund $$$ is going to start flowing. They have a big pull on policy since they have the most to gain.

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Re:Obama argues unregulated social media is a threat to demo... by pomdapi on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:48PM (#31170695)
> it like how all of the Mckinsey types who turned into counter-terrorism consultants around 2004.

If you look at a number of developping political scandals, it seems they turned to pandemic consultants two years ago in at least France, Australia, and a couple others.

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