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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by protomolecule on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:18PM (#39696892)
Facebook played its role in spreading of so called Arab spring in 2011 [0]. Now look how Middle East is doing now, more than 10 years later. That's some destruction for you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media%27s_role_in_the_A...

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by tosser123 on Friday March 15, 2024 @03:38AM (#39712996)
Was that intentional, or a function of less censorable communication and lots of people getting online. Addressing corruption.

This too is just letting flow?

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Re:House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner... by protomolecule on Friday March 15, 2024 @05:45AM (#39713752)
I don't know, but you may have noticed that Facebook haven't been allowing free flow of information since a long time ago. Same for pre-Elon Twitter.
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