I'm having a hard time believing that the Biden administration was some tyrannical anti-free speech censorship regime (can you imagine?). I remember the White House wanting a meeting with the social media platform owners at the time to discuss concerns of COVID misinformation that was literally killing people, and they didn't say anything about being forced to until Trump won the election. This stinks of shitty lip service to the current administration.
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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It's not lip service. The large platforms are now the official propaganda arm of fascism.
Of course they are. They see which way the wind is blowing and are following it to the money. Simple as.
I mean Biden cancelled TikTok because it was spreading truths about Palestine and he had an old man forcably removed from the press conference: https://www.newsweek.com/sam-husseini-removed-antony-blinken-press-conference-israel-palestine-gaza-2016296
I hate Trump as much as anyone but Biden wasn't doing anyone any favors.
This sounds terrible.
Banning comedians and journalists while unbanning shitty misinformation youtubers..Nice
Misinformation YT-jockies don't pose a threat to them.
But why?
To hasten The Fall of course
To create more brainwashed morons who will simp for their oligarch overlords.
Read the article maybe?
"All right ladies and gentlemen: This is deadly serious. I need you all to make suggestions for how we can make YouTube even worse. I know we've already picked the low hanging fruit. Our desktop experience is poorer than it's ever been, user comments are horrendous, and you've all done great and terrible work, but... Now I need the really disastrous options so we can more smoothly become an integral part of the fascist machine of our new glorious owners."
I like Peertube
Great I will continue not using it.
Didn't Dan Bongino quit the FBI? And if he stuck his balls in a wood chipper and stayed, is the deputy director of the FBI allowed to run a podcast? Surely that's some kind of gaping security anus?
Good.