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Mike Masnick
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Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
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Just a week after both Meta & Google promised Senators that they would never block a potentially embarrassing story related to a candidate for national office, both companies did just that. Apparently the promise only applied to embarrassing info on GOP candidates. www.techdirt.com/2024/09/30/b...

Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats
Big Tech’s Promise Never To Block Access To Politically Embarrassing Content Apparently Only Applies To Democrats

It probably will not shock you to find out that big tech’s promises to never again suppress embarrassing leaked content about a political figure came with a catch. Apparently, it only applies when …

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Ppyperkub.bsky.social

Well, also that the embarrassing GOP posts will get them far more death threats, which indicates the censorship efforts are working...

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Rennui.org

It was personulllll informashunnnnn Fucking shitbags

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CDcvdanes.bsky.social

This is my shocked face.

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SCwikisteff.bsky.social

They meant Hunter Biden

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Sswiffy.bsky.social

The Senators must be furious

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Oosana.bsky.social

They like the party that promises endless tax cuts...

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Aradix4801.bsky.social

How many Meta, Google, and Xitter engineers' salaries will be reported as in-kind contributions? They're basically acting as those shady internet-scrubbing "reputation management" consultants. j/k, it's zero, unfortunately.

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Ooldskoolguitar.bsky.social

That darn liburl big tech

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dinger.bsky.social

So when does it become a lying to congress thing? Or does this fall under "its our platform we can do what we want

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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
67.7k followers894 following12.9k posts