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Re:Sweden's 250-year-old Freedom of the Press Act gets UNESC... by ClumsyPilot on Friday May 26, 2023 @09:19AM (#36083701)
Ah, so its like a lifehack for governments - they never arrests you, but mysteriously everyone who disagrees with them is shadowbanned in every form of social media. No dissenting opinion is ever heard, so they get what they want.

And we still technically have freedom of the press?

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Re:Sweden's 250-year-old Freedom of the Press Act gets UNESC... by pavlov on Friday May 26, 2023 @10:31AM (#36084654)
That indeed works in China where they can ban you in every form of social media because they have active controls built in at every level. But China doesn't pretend to have freedom of the press either.

In the West, how does the government shadowban me from my own Mastodon instance and my own hosted blog? Or Truth Social or Gab?

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Re:Sweden's 250-year-old Freedom of the Press Act gets UNESC... by ClumsyPilot on Friday May 26, 2023 @10:57AM (#36085046)
Do they need to? For most people, if you band them from twitter/YouTube etc, the job is done. They aren't gonna out up their own website and the number if independant blogs is small
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Re:Sweden's 250-year-old Freedom of the Press Act gets UNESC... by pavlov on Friday May 26, 2023 @11:04AM (#36085138)
But that’s not a freedom of the press question. These private platforms are only some fifteen years old. TikTok’s rise and Twitter’s fumbles demonstrate that their market positions are not permanent.
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