• IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      You actually tricked yourself into believing this isn’t all about shutting down competition to American companies or stopping people’s (especially young people’s) power to disseminate even remotely left leaning views that could gain traction and threaten the oligarchs.

      I mean even the politicians who back this bill state as much, so I’m not sure why you think this is about national defense. American citizens are just under as much threat as before, but now they have one less way to express themselves. Ain’t that great. /s

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      1 month ago

      to protect the people from outside influence and to protect national defense.

      Thats just not true, otherwise we wouldn’t be welcoming a South African who illegally immigrated to the US and has some serious international conflicts-of-interests with US interests control a major social media platform.

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          1 month ago

          strawman gonna strawman.

          Hardly a strawman! We have a major social media company in the US, that is controlled by a foreigner, for their own, and for foreign interests, and impacting our elections with measureable results.

          So, obviously, this move wasn’t done to prevent such a thing from happening, just to prevent certain countries from doing it.

          you act like it’s the current administration that let’s Elon do whatever he does, but it’s the incoming administration (Trump) that is allowing that.

          Our current admin has done nothing to stop it, and therefore allowing it.

          Why are all the US Gov accounts STILL on Twitter?