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He’s setting the narrative and the press will give it to him. X and Truth Social are the biggest offenders. Report that.

We'll be back to mimeographed leaflets soon. Might not be such a bad idea.

It would be hard to pass a bill to kill 230.

Social media is about social affiliation. Efforts to force affiliation are anti-social.

Every platform that pushes recommendations algorithmically "limit[s] users' ability to share their ideas or affiliations freely" Swamp them with such complaints.

Yeah, but I'm betting Loper Bright only applies when Dems are in power.

It might. Mastodon is far more secure. I have an account there, and on Universedon just in case of.

I mean, yes, I understand the rationale (as always, using that term loosely w/r/t this admin) behind it, but just… what would they censor there? Discussions about personal brand management? Selfies from Dreamforce?

It's full of sales ppl and recruiters

We still have blogs and RSS lists, and I really suggest that everyone who has something to say creates and updates a domain that they own.

This is where BlueSky having a modular moderation architecture is really helpful. It becomes quite a bit easier to say "our moderation only adds labels to what people post and users can make choices about what to see or not and they can ignore us all together if they so choose."

Noticed that FB is censoring a lot less, I am had a number of I hope something horrible happens to some chud posts that used to get me warnings within minutes and now seem to be ignored.

All the people who made fun of me for being a message board/chat room junkie in the 90s and aughts now consider the internet so critical to life that they want the government to punish mods, we live in a clown country

The Putin Playbook

And Reddit

Thank you! I will read it thoroughly. (I'm a techdirt member, too.)

Those are US based? Then have to fallback to non-US based Mastodon Instances.

@nick-carmody.bsky.social

If they are publishers with editorial discretion then Zuckerberg and Musk need to be locked up!

This coup is much better organized than I would expect from idiots like them. Adolf Trump Is slowly stealing America.

If they skip Occupied Twitter and anything Meta-related (and Lord knows they're not going after TruthSocial), I don't feel like they're going to get a lot of traction anywhere else. BlueSky can just make the "Following" feed the default, and then people's feeds would still be calibrated by users.

Big emphasis on “possibly” and “now” in that sentence. The leopards need faces to survive.

If all it takes is getting banned to lose friends and family, maybe the banning wasn't really the issue...

Nice social media company you got there. Be a shame if the so-called government went after you for stifling nazi bs.

A public comment might add that the Washington Post was "shadow banning" when it just denied running a paid anti-Elon Musk advertisement.

I take it this won't mean people will be allowed to post porn on facebook?

I made a point of leading with Musk banning me because I pointed out that the new X logo was a standard character. Then I pointed out that that was his right.

meanwhile actual harm would be meta's content policy that's stilted towards sanctioning hate speech, but only towards people who identify as trans. but the FTC doesn't want to have that conversation