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   Clive Thompson (clive@saturation.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 07:32:01 JST Clive Thompson

   • Mike Masnick ✅

   Remember all the right wing folks were fulminating about collusion between social media and the government?

   you know, the horrors of the "twitter files"?

   how it's *incredibly dangerous* for social-media executives to be in close communication with the federal government?

   the primrose path to censorship, and all that?

   As @mmasnick notes, these folks are all *quite* silent about Musk being *completely in bed with the incoming Trump administration* https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-musk-partnership-x-twitter-files-rcna180427

   a *banger* of a piece

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 07:32:42 JST Robert Link

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     • Mike Masnick ✅

     @clive @mmasnick One ray of hope: X and TruthSocial are competitors. Eventually there will be a falling out over that reality.

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     Madionicolle (nicollemadion@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 13:22:24 JST Madionicolle

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     • Mike Masnick ✅
     • Robert Link

     @phaedral @clive @mmasnick Hello, how would you like to make over million dollars in just 3 weeks

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     VessOnSecurity (bontchev@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 05:40:48 JST VessOnSecurity

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     • Mike Masnick ✅

     @clive @mmasnick I am sure that all the leftists will remain completely blind to the difference between "the government strongly suggesting a social media network to do something" and "the owner of a social media network being a strong supporter of the government".

     WaPo being a leftist piece of shit supporting the socialist administration is perfectly fine and their 1st Amendment right. The government "strongly suggesting" to WaPo to censor certain stories, however, is absolutely unacceptable.

     The problem with the "Twitter files" isn't that Twitter did what was asked from it. The problem is that the government "asked" in the first place.

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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 05:40:48 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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     • VessOnSecurity

     @bontchev @clive except that what you describe is not what happened. I'm sorry that you appear to have fallen down a deep well of misinformation, but I don't have to accept what didn't happen as true.

     Educate yourself, please.

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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 08:23:15 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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     • Latif

     @latif @clive That article is misinformed conspiracy theory nonsense on the level of Qanon. Please don't spread that garbage.

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     Latif (latif@toot.community)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 08:23:20 JST Latif

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     • Mike Masnick ✅

     @clive @mmasnick
     This article expose why Elon is doing all this and for what and who's behind him and why, all make sense it's bigger than most people think.
     https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267d