• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    When oligarchs talk about “free speech” they mean their own ability to disseminate propaganda. They never mean the ability of others to criticise them.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    22 hours ago

    Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.

    … What?

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      22 hours ago

      1: accept money to show ads that violate your own terms and conditions

      2: remove legitimate content exposing your double standards using the ads that you were successfully paid to allow as a pretense

      3: remove every link to articles critical of you containing so much as a textual reference to the fact that humans have bodies, citing “nudity”

      4: threaten journalists with expulsion if they don’t take the hint and shut up

      5: ???

      6: profit. To the tune of dozens of billions of dollars a year, eclipsing the individual GDP of over half of all countries and the GDP of the 20 poorest countries COMBINED.

      I wonder if any friends of Luigi have access to Zuckerberg’s itinerary…

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        16 hours ago

        Dont we know where their jet is?

        Unrelated: if “bird strikes” can bring down a jet, what happens if a drone makes its way into a jet engine?

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    22 hours ago

    Important story, but not really “oniony”. This is the new normal unless you’ve been living under a rock.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      22 hours ago

      Personally, I’ve long since adopted as my criteria “this would be satire in a sane world”.

      Otherwise, there’d hardly be ANYTHING that qualifies anymore 🤷