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Mike Masnick

mmasnick.bsky.social

Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotpl...

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Top 5 Most Liked Posts (14 days)

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Jon Stewart admits folks here were right & he wasn't: "I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast. I really didn't. I'm sorry. Who could have known? Maybe if someone out there had yelled at me on Bluesky about this, I would have known. But no one did. Except every day. In all caps."

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As @jamellebouie.net has been saying, they are absolutely trying to bring back segregation.

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Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.

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This is why it's stupid for dem consultants to keep insisting "don't hit them on immigration." Hit them on what they're strong on, *because they're doing terrible shit and you can make them not so strong any more*

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Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.

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Top 5 Most Reposted Posts (14 days)

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As @jamellebouie.net has been saying, they are absolutely trying to bring back segregation.

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Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.

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Jon Stewart admits folks here were right & he wasn't: "I did not think he would get this authoritarian this fast. I really didn't. I'm sorry. Who could have known? Maybe if someone out there had yelled at me on Bluesky about this, I would have known. But no one did. Except every day. In all caps."

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Yup. They'll send a legitimately awful US citizen to CECOT, and anyone who criticizes it will be accused of supporting the awful person... and then they'll send someone slightly less awful. Eventually, they'll have established that they can send anyone.

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This is why it's stupid for dem consultants to keep insisting "don't hit them on immigration." Hit them on what they're strong on, *because they're doing terrible shit and you can make them not so strong any more*

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