• ShimitarA
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    3 hours 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.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      3 hours 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.

      • stabby_cicada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        29 minutes 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.

        Biden pressured big social media to censor ideas he didn’t want spreading. The ideas spread anyway. All Biden did was show he was afraid of those ideas and make some of the worst people in the world look like martyrs.

        I really can’t think of a better example of how “deplatforming Nazis” doesn’t work than the last five years of American history.

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
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        2 hours 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.