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"Bezos also made clear that alternate views will not appear on the pages."

So glad the US finally got a government focusing on freedom of speech .. And you know, not pressuring companies and the press to do their bidding /s




Bezos is not a part of US government, thankfully.


Assuredly, but this does appear to be a move to appease an administration that has signaled it will attack an unfriendly press.


Just like Biden administration did before


Might as well be, it’s not the doing of a single party but it’s pretty much just become the lever of a few at this point, people simply don’t matter unless they are able and willing to pay for representation

I’m whatever about it though, will be interesting to watch crumble


Nor was Dorsey's Twitter?


That very much was a part of the government. They were receiving orders directly from the White House, same as now, I suppose.


They received requests, many of which were denied. Not part of the government.


Not according to Twitter files. Twitter under Dorsey and later under Agarwal was quite enthusiastic and eager about pushing the government narratives and suppressing dissent. They even deplatformed a sitting president. I get that you probably liked it back then, but let's be real here. Twitter neither was in a position to deny any requests, nor did it have any inclination to do so.


Yes according to the Twitter files. https://x.com/davidzweig/status/1607384015731888135

> They even deplatformed a sitting president

That sounds like literally the opposite of following government narratives?


By "government" at that time I mean the DNC / DeepState that twitter was entirely subservient to before Musk bought it.


The DNC, a private organization, is the government, but the sitting POTUS is not…

Curious!



According to Dorsey, they didn't want to block Trump, they caved in to advertiser requests.

"But [the Trump ban] was right for the business, because if we didn’t act on it, we probably would have lost all our advertisers, which would affect the business and stock price. But it was wrong for the world and the internet, given the fact that we could do it in the first place. No one should be able to do that."

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mik...


Not true according to their own press release: https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension


You know that the "Twitter Files" were carefully curated to to craft a certain narrative, right?


Well, dont want to be labeled as lugenpresse.




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