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Translation help from Fascist English to US English:
Kyub's right.
Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard, not silence speech they dislike.
That's real fucking rich coming from the government that:
Don't forget
removed funding for weather services or deleted materials related to climate change
runs from people trying to ask them questions
If we're adding "runs from people trying to ask them questions", we should be more accurate about it.
runs from people trying to ask them questions, calling them plants put there by political opponents
That because they don't want free apeech. They want the speech only if its their speech.
That's the regressive mindset for you. When they say 'all', they mean themselves.
They don't want to be forced to listen to what YOU have to say, but they want to force YOU to listen to what they have to say.
Is this the same United States that’s investigating people for having unflattering memes of the vice president on their phone?
Tell us more about the importance of free speech.
It’s the free speech where they cancel broadcasts they don’t like in exchange for approving corporate mergers.
Of course the US will fight tooth and nail to keep its propaganda machines at work all around the globe.
While defunding NPR and PBS.
You have to believe that the French government have evaluated in the same week the risk of recognising Palestine and condemning a US company against how vindictive the US government are right now. Hopefully they stick to their guns on both.
Them: Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard
Us: Free Palestine
Them: Terrorist!
As part of a criminal investigation, an activist American payment network is requesting to stop selling video games that they seem inappropriate and has basically treated itch.io, Steam, etc. as an “organized crime group.” Democratic governments should allow all games to be played, not silence things they dislike. The United States will defend the free prudence of all Americans against acts of foreign fun.
The only thing I condemn the French inquiry on is that it should have already happened.
From my experience living in the US, the country is not a good reference point for any discussions around the nature of free speech.
Free speech polemics in the US largely have a demonstrative role with individuals parroting random copytext that they've heard before in an attempt to position themselves as being special and independent.
In a way, the whole thing is very entertaining.
Every state or social group has its shibboleths - the American one is just to performatively pretend they don't have any.
USA can straight up go fuck itself now. They don't dictate anything anymore.
By condemning this, the "US" is shooting itself in the foot.
Ever since Twitter owner used Twitter to say Canada "wasn't a real country", no Canadian should be using Twitter. That wasn't just bias, it was an "in your face and screw you" kind of bias.
Martin: Organized crime?
Cosmo: Hah. Don't kid yourself. It's not that organized.– Sneakers (1992)
Twitter is absolutely going to say "well, we're definitely not an organised hate group. Sometimes people just hate stuff. We're just a social media platform, helping people organise. Oh shit"
Okay, now defend us from the foreign censorship that Israeli lobbyists baked into our state constitutions. https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-states-colleges-illegal-bds-1895292
Just block it in Europe already. Or give Musk daily-increasing fines so he has it turned off in the EU.
US condemns....
Good. That means you're doing the right thing. Keep doing it.
EU just rolled over on trade with US. If anyone hopes for some actual fight against US and US corporations coming for Europe they will be disappointment.
Very disappointing indeed. Hoping to at least see continued work on digital independence, especially in governmental entities.
Requesting information isn't limiting free speech is it? Now if that algorithm shows it is indeed limiting or promoting people's speech in a non-equal manner, that would be limiting people's free speech would it not?
Dont try facts on the American government and 40% of its population. They dont work like that.
Just call it Twitter. He's been trying to make "fetch" happen since the 90s. We get it, rich boy, you have a single-character .com domain. I'm still sending money over PayPal, because that's what it's fucking called.
PayPal? The platform that can freeze your account and keep your money for whatever reason and amount of time they like? I don't know...
"activist" even trying to discredit foreign federal bureaus by framing them as politically motivated lmao what a bunch of fucking crooks in the US admin.
Twitter only allows nazi speech now.
Hasn’t Elon been found multiple times suppressing people who say things he doesn’t like?
About twice a day yeah
The US Administration, more importantly a branch of the department of state, condemns French inquiry.
A lot of the USA are cheering the French on.
100% "X is an organized crime group". if you count brainwashing as a crime, which i do.
they're manipulating public opinion towards what the rich want to hear. it's all propaganda.
elon musk bought twitter to conduct "social engineering" after doing classical engineering before at tesla. it's all just a way to control what people think, and it's partially working. the people need to get off commercial social media and use something community-hosted, like the fediverse. to reduce the tinkering with recommendation algorithms and also to reduce the bot army.
