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Re:China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation by the_doctah on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @11:02AM (#37675653)
The US government didn't stop there though. They used their influence to censor US citizens' tweets. That's censorship, and that's what happens when you give the government this power. Put censorship in quotes all you like, you support it.
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Re:China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation by unclebucknasty on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:53PM (#37684622)
Twitter is infested with trollbots and sock puppets, and can't even agree with itself on its count of real users. So, if some real user accounts that parroted disinfo were swept up in bans or whatever you're calling "censorship" during the disinfo fight, then so be it.

And, in any case, if they're parroting the same disinfo as foreign adversaries who are working to destroy us, then they don't get special dispensation just because they're U.S. citizens.

This is why the First Amendment famously has limits.

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Re:China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation by the_doctah on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @10:53PM (#37684626)
>Twitter is infested with trollbots and sock puppets, and can't even agree with itself on its count of real users.

You just described every social media platform.

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