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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

haha remember that multi-year stretch where MAGA threatened Silicon Valley giants with fake antitrust inquiries unless they kissed the ring and stopped moderating racist right wing propaganda, resulting in a lot of gullible tech press stories about how the right was going to "rein in big tech?"

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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

it's so weird how Matt Stoller and friends were wrong, and the whole thing not only resulted in no beneficial consumer outcomes WHATSOEVER, but the tech giants just went mask off in their support for fascism if only somebody had warned people repeatedly. for years.

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