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Re:US now requires public social media profiles from student... by anonfordays on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:35AM (#44328115)
The irony is palpable considering terminally online leftist reddit mods have done exactly that. Huge swaths of reddit will ban your account for partaking in thoughtcrime subreddits, even if you were posting something critical in them. They'll also scan your history and look for keywords and phrases that are "hate speech," even if you are quoting something, or if the "hate speech" of the day didn't exist three years ago. Doesn't matter, ban. There's no recourse either.
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Re:US now requires public social media profiles from student... by techpineapple on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:40AM (#44328160)
Yes, you're absolutely right, it's completely unreasonable to hope that your president and country have a different have a different set of governance principles than the mod of your hentai subreddit.
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Re:US now requires public social media profiles from student... by anonfordays on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @10:24AM (#44377684)
Yes, you're absolutely right, it's completely unreasonable to hope that your president and country have a consistent set of governance principles applied to guests in public spaces. What you're admitting to is that it's OK to be unprincipled as long as the target is a politically convenient one.
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