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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by rad_gruchalski on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:26PM (#42713997)
> Does it? Does a human need to examine everything posted? You can certainly send letters without them going through a human moderator.

Because those are two orthogonal things. You aren’t sending a letter to be displayed by everyone and their dog on this planet to see.

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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by mmcdermott on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:28PM (#42714986)
You can also print flyers, pamphlets, books, posters, and all such things without submitting them to a human censor (c.f. https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/p... for this usage).
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Re:TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday by rad_gruchalski on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @01:39PM (#42715128)
Yes. To one address at a time. If you do a mass send, you'll get regulated at some point, too.
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