Tell me we're not an oligarchy.

Hey guys, I had an idea that maybe the richest people in the world are buying up all the media so that they can control and censor public discourse and anything they disagree with.

I know it's a bit out there, and I can't prove it, but it's just this crazy thought I had!

The Alt-right and capitalism ladies & gentlemen! Hope it was worth it.

Fancy that!

There's a reason Elon bought Twitter, and it wasn't just so he could wave his dick through the world's biggest megaphone.

Bluesky will fall in line as well. You don't have platforms with hundreds of millions of users without big pockets, and if you've got big pockets it would seem the world is already working exactly the way you want it to.

And none of you saw this coming? Really? State owned media news and "entertainment" outlets refusing to disparage the king?

And STILL y'all use them - knowing full well that all your information is sold on the open market and all your secrets are no more?

And then bitch about it. Fucking hell - America and the rest of the world devolves into dumb shits.

If you don't want to be "cut off" by the people you're protesting against, DON'T USE THEIR MEDIA.

These absolute dumb fucks shouldn't be using facebook or instagram to begin with.

Bit late for those fears, but okay

Terrible headline. Implies that censorship isn’t happening, but we are on a slippery slope.

It should “Awareness of big tech censorship grows after…”

Can't spell metastasis without META: They are a cancer, delete your accounts today and stop letting them spread their sickness into you, your friends, or your family.

I wish activist organizations would stop making Instagram their primary/sole updates platform and have more sane communication options that aren't crazy addictive and centralized (for which there are quite a few options). Encouraging more people onto Instagram is counterintuitive

Remember how all the cons that thought "the Twitter files" were such a big deal and were constantly mewling about things like "Section 230"?

And all because they were merely being mildly hemmed in on saying openly racist shit on a private platforms, spreading harmful conspiracy theories about a pandemic, and wanting a Russian psyop about a hard drive, oops, I mean, "laptop" spread far and wide on the same private platforms.

Wonder where all these free speech maximalists are now?

I submit that the conservatives have always been rather problematic in their mental state, but a few things definitely broke their brains: 1. A black man being elected twice, and generally well-regarded by most of America and the world. 2. Their Qanon bullshit stories did not result in Podesta, Clinton, Obama, etc., being arrested by donnie douchebag. 3. Covid. and finally, 4. Their J6 scheme failed

By the time they hit 2021, their brains were so utterly broken. Claiming that "Big Tech" post Cambridge Analytica was "liberal", LOL. Quite the fucking take. And what conservatives have been the least bit cancelled? I still hear from all of these assholes all the time, way too much.

If you are fighting someone why the fuck would you use the platform of those you are fighting against?

There are plenty of options that you can use which haven't been invaded by parasites.

Of look! All those things we said would happen are happening. Quelle surprise.

every time the Americans go ‘oh shit I think we’re obviously living in a fascist regime!’ they forget about it within a week, this is like the 8th time in the last 2 years that this headline has run.

Meta and X need to be banned from the EU.

People need to understand that Zuch was in on this since at least Cambridge analyitca, he's one of the pioneers of modern misinformation warfare. Of all the guys in tech, only musk is more on Trump's side than Zuch. Actively the enemy.

If only there were, I don’t know, a social media network of services that use the same protocol to talk to each other, and has no central authority? Something that, and this may be a stretch here, that is created and ran by the people?

Maybe someday. 🤷

It’s almost like abandoning protocols for platforms was a mistake.

Just like coming down from the trees and leaving the ocean.

So they're destroying the 'social' feature of their social media. Interesting choice.