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John J’onzz's avatar

Nice work with this, and everything you've done recently.

Reddit's censorship (r/censorship) also censored any mention of the Twitter Files, which seems related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/censorship/comments/103on05/latest_twitter_files_reveal_biden_officials/

Kind of a small Reddit, but it's about a million on the irony meter.

Even wilder — and I don't think anyone noticed — happened within the new Substack Notes feature where "New Normal Reich" author C.J. Hopkins has been waging a seemingly one-man war against hundreds of would-be censors of Notes (who don't want people like Hopkins around). Fairly well known Substacker Seth Abramson kept claiming over and over (as modern hall monitor types do) that "censorship" is only when the government censors and nothing else is ever censorship. Hopkins rightfully said that Abramson is wrong, so Abramson took a Google screenshot to prove his point. The screenshot looked weird to me so I looked it up, and Abramson had actually Photoshopped a Google search result for "censorship" in Wikipedia with the text of "political censorship" from Wikipedia and passed it off as real! (I don't think Hopkins noticed because he's constantly being assaulted by the junior authoritarian league fighting the good fight to censor every opinion they dislike.) But actually using software to censor/rewrite the definition of "censorship" to conform to someone's personal wishes is a whole new level of batshit crazy. And scary!

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Xparté's avatar

the democrats have, in general, become fascists. but I've been convinced for a while that there are more bots on reddit than people. they swarm subs whenever a truly 'liberal' view is expressed (and that's been happening at least since 2016).

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