Re:Google blocks Truth Social from the Play Store
by tentacleuno on Friday September 02, 2022 @05:12AM
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What happened to Trump always made me feel a bit uneasy. Seeing companies from Stripe, a payments company, to all social media companies block him all at once was staggering to see. The collective power of all these companies is staggering, and I've never seen anything on this scale before.
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Re:Google blocks Truth Social from the Play Store
by karmakurtisaani on Saturday September 03, 2022 @04:27AM
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I feel like on January 6th something happened that could influence this.. I mean let's not pretend this kind of action happens just because the companies decide someone is not woke enough or some bs like that. Trump is dangerous and seriously doesn't deserve to be on these platforms.
Re:Google blocks Truth Social from the Play Store
by tentacleuno on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:17PM
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I'm not arguing that he should not have been banned. In fact, I wholeheartedly agree that his removal from social media was a good idea. It may have even saved lives. My point is that I have never seen companies join together to de-platform one person so quickly.
P.S. I don't really subscribe to this "woke" nonsense. It feels like a tired cliche at this point. We need to find more meaningful terms to describe a set of morals.