• bamboo@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      Celebrating the US government implementing protectionist policies to benefit American oligarchs and limit free speech? Seems like a dumb holiday

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        12 hours ago

        The speech: a US shell company reposting an algorithm owned by a company that is bound to the will on the closest thing the US has to a rival nation.

        This is the argument of TikTok’s counsel before the court

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          11 hours ago

          That’s not the speech I was referring to, the speech I am referring to is the speech of regular people whose voices are censored on American social media. TikTok, being non-American, offers a platform for those who are at odds with the American oligarchy.

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        2 days ago

        Except Yass is like the face of oligarchy and the one reason Trump wants to stop the ban