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You’re going to get flamed for reminder that these are NOT, in fact, public utilities.

Prescient lyrics from John Mayer’s “Waiting in the world to change”

Even the fleas are starving because these ghouls have no blood to suck

It’s way past time that Meta was broken up. That they got away with not having more serious questions after its association with the genocide in Myanmar is incredible.

Yes, for far too long we gave social media some special category as if it operated outside capitalism “Connecting people” or whatever bullshit as these companies accumulated capital and political power

It literally takes 10 seconds to delete the kings money makers.

I still say, anyone still using Twitter is a Nazi or Nazi collaborator. Every tweet puts money in a fascist's pocket. People spew excuses for why they just 'have' to remain, but they're all bullshit.

#BoycottTikTok

it seems to be the opposite of what it should be since it’s splintered into smaller feeds. what everyone wants is a single timeline/feed

There is nothing here that anyone should want or need to save.

I have an account and found it not very engaging. Haven't used it in a long long time. To each their own.

Based alex winter

I'm shocked, SHOCKED that the "free speech absolutists" who were upset that these privately owned companies tried to reduce misinformation are silent on this blatent speech suppression. Well, not *that* shocked.

Section 230 must be repealed.

Like the economy, people overlook so much unless it directly affects them. Their friends are there, they think the rest doesn't apply to them. That's very much human nature. Expecting to be able to "educate people out of it" has proven to be a poor tactic.

Metal suspended the Instagram account of the No King organization this afternoon. The power of money against democracy. 🤬

Mastodon was a viable alternative but people refused to get on board.

Well the solution is simple. Refuse to engage with them.

And sadly, it may be enough. They have amassed enough power to suppress speech and foist authoritarianism on us

Please refrain from besmirching my husband. He's already over-stressed.

Took long enough. These platforms are private kingdoms with terrible agendas, and everyone kept calling them the town square. You can't fix a company that profits from the rot by asking it nicely. Stop feeding the beast.

Seize them. Break them up.

Any of these BILLIONAIRES will cut any of us off at anytime. I hope they all turn on one another!

That your 401k depends on

Hopefully Streisand effect happens

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One need only glance at that crew to see, yeah, that shit ain’t right. 🤨

It's not the public square. It's a big bar next to the public square, and if the owner is fine with Nazi bikers hanging out at the bar, than it's up to you to leave.

Who owns TikTok? Oracle. Who owns Oracle? Larry Ellison. What else does he own? Skydance. What does Skydance own? See below, BOYCOTT THEM ALL!!! -Stop supporting Billionaire Media monopolies-

It’s time for some tech savvy liberals to launch more platforms to compete with TikTok & Instagram.

How many people see TikTok for now is not a good for community

JCO is probably there for the racism.

I've also wondered as well. They could have both if they wanted to.

total control? if we want them to die, all we have to do is unsubscribe from them "Ex", "two-facedbook", "instascam", & "schtik schlok" will disappear in days. if we all stop participating in the fascist scheme, it will wither and die as well

I distinctly remember people saying "Twitter is a private company, they can ban whoever they want" when Dorsey was there Oddly enough those same people no longer make that argument now. I wonder what changed...

Old enough to remember when that lot all whined about accounts getting banned from the original Twitter. 'Censorship!' 'Free Speech!' ..? Hypocrites.

The state of our media is overwhelmingly sad. There should be no need for that documentary at all. Everybody should already 100% know that Musk is a Nazi. I hate that there is so much stupidity afoot.

Capitalism hard at work for the oligarchs

Everyone should have quit meta the day they paid Trump. I did and will not even look at links to their platforms when presented.

I've been banned 8x on TikTok. Fixing to be banned again. I post news reports. Science. Philosophy. Books. Political satire. Etc.

Remember when everyone left Twitter when they realized Musk is a nazi? And TikTok when it was bought by genocide supporters? Oh right, cause it never happened

Time to revisit sec 230 isn’t it?

Apart from the companies running them needing to be broken up, this shows why self hosting and decentralised services are so important. Too many people rely on these big platforms and cede all control over their life out of pure ‘convenience’.

Voter suppression is in full swing. Republicans must cheat to win.

We need a new internet...

Maybe youtube can launch a special offer to watch the Musk movie.

The acct I’ve had for over 2 years was suspended due to “suspicious activity” today. I’m on Bluesky everyday and watch my account. Just completely shut down. So on purpose? Maybe. 🤷‍♀️

If you don't pay, you're not a customer, you're a source of revenue *at the supplier's pleasure*.

Umm wasn’t this obvious? Didn’t many of us warn about this when the internet was privatized and the millenials embraced apps over the web? The internet should be treated as a public good and as a direct parallel to a public square.

Perhaps it's a case of, more fool them for not using BlueSky to start with??

it would be great if we had a truly publicly accessible, social media, Not sure how to get there without nationalizing everything and ending capitalism first Maybe some heroic wealthy leftist could create it, but I haven’t seen it happen yet.

I have a mission now; I Musk see that new documentary.

Maybe the rich will eat the rich. They're all evil and greedy.

I can’t wait to pay to see Musk.

What if we all got off our devices and went outside and faced the truth and what needs to be done head-on? Chatting about it, marching about it… neither actually does anything about it

Love how we can’t censure things, oh you want that censored? Sure no problem.

As soon as Tik was blessed by tRump, this was my expectation.

Instagram account for No Kings was sabotaged by Fuckerberg

It’s aaallll about their pockets and controlling everything.

. . . you get up with the fascist fleas.

These social media companies represent an unprecedented threat to national security, and therefore must be nationalized.

Won’t stop us from seeing it. F uc k em.

That’s it, I love the airplane and dance videos and tik tok has figured out how to keep my scrolling, but these people are eviland must be shunned. Deleting tik tok now. Begone!

Everybody needs to get off sort like bombing data centers. A black out of these social media platforms.

no no they’re there they’re all doing rape apologia

"Essentially their careers are based on their appeal to the editors of the Atlantic, official publication of the donor class look at Conor Friedersdorf Thomas Chatterton Williams Bari Weiss And that's who all the "free speech" culture stuff is aimed at Because the movement is donor/patron-driven"

When Musk said he was a "free speech absolutist" the statement contained exactly two redundant words. I hope we're all finally clear on what they were.

"Streisand Effect"? 🇺🇸🤞

We used to have form sites for clubs or hobbies but Facebook bribed or forced them all onto its site. We should rebuild them.

They just can’t seem to be able to believe that just maybe, they are the problem. Not to mention they don’t care when it happens to everyone else

Anybody still have a FB account? Even if you’re not using it, DELETE it.

Nothing Musk owns should be trusted because he has a white supremacist agenda that he is playing out through all his products. Ukraine, Europe and UK should replace Starlink as soon as possible and nobody should be still using X because it is promoting far right, white supremacist views.

For reals, babe. I left last year and don't miss it. And I don't think my posts here are literature that I need to save, either.

And stop funding Amazon. People can live without it.

I left every one of those and am prepared to leave more if necessary

We need new Tech options stat!

But muh shadow ban

Imagine how this administration would react if this was a “conservative” film.

I don't blame them after all, he is their opposition

Remember it was Musk who proclaimed himself a “free speech absolutist”. More like dick absolutist. But still…

It also shows the incestuous relationship between these platforms where one can make the other ban anyone in return for some other favor I'm sure.

Mr. effing Free Speech... smh

If they "wake up" then they have to act - do something, anything. That's where the resistance is.

The establishment seriously hated the open internet, and now, decades later, they've largely succeeded in bringing it back under establishment control.

I try to get my news from actual news sites, preferably from sources around the world.

Tom gave us everything and we abandoned him

it's very palatable! refreshing, even

They all need to be forceably broken up, at a severe loss for current owners.

My dear friend.. i am sharif

bring back the pub, the church, the library, the coffee shop etc for organizing. those bonds are stronger. go out and talk to your neighbor.

"Leftist billionaires" is an oxymoron

It’s it going to happen We need to reform sec 230 and start putting guardrails around these companies

And Starlink.

Protocols, not platforms knightcolumbia.org/content/prot...

Delete all Meta accounts

Plainly the machine one tries to use for information (and facilitating engagement) at scale is not built for it (in any sense of the word)

I would, but I don't know how!

Maybe now all Americans can join the dots... not just the educated ones.

Holy crap.

‘Moving on’ is a pipedream It’s not going to happen We need governments around the world to take action and strictly regulate these mfrs

I was kicked off of Facebook and left 🐤 when the mush man bought it, so I guess I’m in good company. Why people continue to stay on those sites and make them money is beyond me.

1000% People need to delete their Xwitter accounts (not just log out or delete the app). They’re just supporting Elon Musk and his bots and disinformation algorithm. It’s pathetic that people refuse to delete their accounts. Buh, buh, but my followers. Gfy.

When Zuckerberg said he was a free speech absolutist, what he meant was “free speech? Absolute shit.”

"There needs to be new, viable platforms and forums for culture and politics within the bounds of free speech. It’s entirely doable." Calling Tim Berners-Lee. Wouldn't it be great to have a "Brand new internet" a brand new internet where AI in all it's forms is outlawed & BANNED!

Elon Streisand has entered the chat ...

I would PAY for Bluesky

Leaving bad digital real estate is a feature not a bug .. History shows platforms fade when creators move on

You can't stop the signal. People will always find a way.

Bluesky, too, is a forum with owners