• VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    It’s the chilling effect they use in China, don’t make it clear what will get you in trouble and then people are too scared to say anything

    Just another group looking to control expression by the back door

    • rambaroo@lemmynsfw.com
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      9 months ago

      There’s nothing ambiguous about this. Give me a break. We’re demanding that social media companies stop deliberately driving negativity and extremism to get clicks. This has fuck all to do with free speech. What they’re doing isn’t “free speech”, it’s mass manipulation, and it’s very deliberate. And it isn’t disclosed to users at any point, which also makes it fraudulent.

      It’s incredibly ironic that you’re accusing people of an effort to control expression when that’s literally what social media has been doing since the beginning. They’re the ones trying to turn the world into a dystopia, not the other way around.