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Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Wake up. Ice, being government, it’s already legitimized enough in real life.

What difference would it make in the social media. Better if they are out in the open in social media instead, at least they get responsible for what they post, officially.

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TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

What difference would it make in the social media.

Apparently you slept through a fascist dictator rising to power by manipulating desperate people, specifically on social media.

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- stabby_cicada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Apparently you slept through the part where mainstream social media did try to censor, ban, and deplatform that dictator’s supporters, and it backfired.
  
  I mean, Twitter literally banned Donald Trump, and he just started his own Twitter clone. Mainstream social media banned COVID disinformation and now we have an anti-vaxxer running the US Department of Health. Probably hundreds of thousands of people got deplatformed for claiming the 2020 elections were stolen, and more people now believe Trump won in 2020 then they did in 2021.
  
  And even if the technocrat hyperbillionaires running US social media change their tune under a Democrat administration (if we ever get another Democrat administration) and start censoring “fascist misinformation”, who’d trust them to stick to that? They’ve already proven they’re willing to censor whatever the government wants censored.
  
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  - TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I see what you’re saying and you make a good point honestly.
    
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- ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Like the white house, department of homeland security, and others before them, the account will get no traction and be ignored. It is currently working really well on bluesky.
  
  When they mandate visibility a la Twitter, that is the problem. But they don’t.
  
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