alt Hacker NewsWho is the "we" that you think surrendered control here? Freedom of the press necessitates that anyone can publish freely even if what they publish is foreign propaganda.
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TheOtherHobbes • today at 1:50 AM
Being subject to the topic promotion and suppression technologies [1] and bizarre political whims of billionaire media owners is an unusual definition of "freedom."
[1] See for example:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorship...
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direwolf20 • today at 2:41 AM
I think "we" is everyone.
megous • today at 1:56 AM
There are about 50 people on EU sanctions list that tried this, who can't travel, or engage in any normal economic activity.
I wasn't talking about press, I was talking about how ad-driven social media became effectively the only communication tool and we still refuse to enact/enforce effective regulation to curb its hegemony.