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Deinitely never editing that

All it needed was a goddamn network pork instead of a dialup modem and it would be alive today. DC was the best.

This is pure corruption.

What action are you trying to imply, exactly?

Sounds like a divisive call for violence and civil war, the exact sort of shit the nuttier conservatives play up when talking about liberals. You aren’t even advocating attacking the definite bad actors in positions of power, you are advocating attacking neighbors.

This even works as the exact sort of propaganda foreign state adversaries would use to stir up unrest to keep the US frozen from the inside, in to reduce our impact on potential global conflicts, ie Ukraine, Taiwan, South Korea, etc.

When all you see are enemies, you’ve embraced the very hate you think you are standing against.

Don’t spam the same thing in multiple communities like this, it’s poor etiquette and it will get you bans sooner rather than later. Thanks and have a nice day.

Good catch, I got interrupted with work mid post, thats probably the most notable example for sure.

What?

Those examples are after-it-actually-happened reports of the US government actively getting corporations to do what they want.

Get your head out of the sand.

I don’t trust China, but I’m not going to lie to myself to feel better about a political hitjob, even if Bytedance has it’s multinational corporate governance primarily under China.

Kapersky is the example you want to point at for an example of a bad actor corp capturing classified data and sending it to an adversarial government. TikTok just trended anti-political messages for a few different popular politicians and lit a match as a result.

Sorry broke the link somehow, edited and fixed.

Lemmy is an open system in and of itself, and the resultant platform algorithms are open by design, it’s just wishful nonsense to think a state actor can’t ‘surface or suppress’ ideas even here with a little effort.

And even american commercial social media sites don’t really do it for a specific political agenda

Oh my sweet summer child, we’re at the coercion of news media redux for social media…

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-blocks-order-curbing-biden-administration-social-media-contacts-2023-10-20/

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/biden-administration-blocked-from-working-with-social-media-firms-about-protected-speech

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/fbi-white-house-likely-coerced-social-media-platforms-appeals-court.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens'_Commission_to_Investigate_the_FBI

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/hearings/ciasuseofjournal00unit.pdf

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp91-00901r000500050029-0

That was about money, this is about controlling speech.