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SilverBirchyesterday at 4:26 PM3 repliesview on HN

No, they also access information through Facebook owned by Trump ally Zuckerberg, X owned by Trump doner and DOGE former official Musk, or via media organisations like CBS who have recently had their editorial standards changed to be more friendly to the regime. It's fine though people can here about the regime through neutral pundits like Jimmy Kimmel, who definitely hasn't come under any pressure to comply with the regime talking points. It's alright we've got NPR, which is definitely not under attack.

If you haven't noticed a sweeping attack on free speech in US media, then I just don't think you're paying attention, and playing it off as if it's "just" Tiktok is at best disingenuous.


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imgabeyesterday at 11:16 PM

100,000 protestors and not a single one can upload a video to a CDN and throw up a static page with an HTML5 player?

Sucks to suck, I guess.

_DeadFred_yesterday at 4:41 PM

We were so naive in the 2000s. 'Tech will democratize everything' forgetting they will just flood us with bullshit so that nothing means anything.

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mrexcessyesterday at 4:43 PM

>I just don't think you're paying attention

Alternate explanation: they are paying intense attention... to the palms that are pressed desperately against their eye sockets as they attempt to See No Evil.