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HiddenHand 146 points ago +149 / -3

That's why they are shutting us down folks. So we don't realize that!! Trump has the strongest support he's ever had. It's also why we've seen the doomed/it's over/get over it bot attack since the 6th (which seems less aggressive right now, probably waiting for new talking points).

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SecurityExpert 14 points ago +14 / -0

They don’t care about how many people support Trump, or conservatism, or liberalism, or socialism today... Their goal is simply to have a generation of people grow up with this level of control of speech and ideas being normal.

The default goal of any person or group who has power is to increase their power. You can see it in your office, when the wrong type of person gets promoted to be a manager, and they just start micromanaging everybody. You can see it in the government when every single year they regulate our lives more and more. You can see it in these media companies, where every strategic decisions they make is designed to give them more control over the flow of information, and the ability of people to express themselves.

They’ve already gotten away with it. It doesn’t matter how much we despise it. The only thing that matters is whether they can get away with it long enough for enough people to grow up with this being completely normal. Because every day we will just become an ever shrinking, ever aging group of people that the youth doesn’t understand.

America was the last hurdle for this, because Americans are the only people who distrust authority enough to still have some skepticism left.

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HiddenHand 5 points ago +5 / -0

That's true, but they could do it more slowly over Biden's terme, and easily. They always use the boiled frog strategy. Do it slow enough and people won't complain too much.

But they're doing it all in one day today. And attacking websites like TD, CFP, 4chan, etc...They're doing it to complete their coup and make us feel alone and silly.

I agree with your statement 100%, but there's a very time-sensitive censorship event going on.

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SecurityExpert 2 points ago +2 / -0

I don’t think a deviation from frog boiling is necessarily a sign of anything deeper. Trump couldn’t be slowly banned from Twitter. He would always have to go from being not banned to being banned. To me it seems like all they’re doing is using a “crisis” to rip the bandaid off. Especially now that they know they won’t face any legislative repercussions.

The fact the “crisis” only exists in the headlines of the newspapers, and in the deluded pr releases these companies are making doesn’t matter. Almost every headline around the world says Trump had been banned to prevent him “inciting further violence”. It’s just the finishing move from these big media companies.