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tenebrisalietum on Aug 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google is apparently taking down all/most Fedivers...

> But I also think it's obvious that I shouldn't trust you to make the decision of who needs to shut up. And definitely not the government.

Well right now social media companies seem to have that power. How is that better?

I hear this point all the time. Is there a better response than this?

a1369209993 on Aug 28, 2020 [–]

> Well right now social media companies seem to have that power. How is that better?

It's not; we're attempting to fix that, and TFA is about Google maliciously attacking one such attempt.

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