• Microw@piefed.zip
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    12 hours ago

    “Even dating apps” is a wild piece of phrasing

    Yes, even dating apps, famously known for only allowing 18+ year olds

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      8 hours ago

      I’ve had this argument numerous times on here and I do not care to have it again, but I’m just going to say this. If you define lemmy and Reddit as social media, then you are defining almost the entire internet to be social media and this is the outcome. Governments will regulate that term, to include everything, and restrict almost all of your online activity in the process. That includes websites like GitHub, Amazon, and Wikipedia. It includes StackOverflow and the Git mailing list. It includes Google and PornHub and Netflix and Weather.com.

      This is the inevitable outcome of defining social media to include forums…places of discussion. To define social media as sharing things. Stop defining lemmy and Reddit as social media and maybe things will get better. But at this point it will be hard.

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    11 hours ago

    Blocking Discord, Twitch, Steam and Roblox will get the teens really fucking riled up

    “There may be those who are [covered by the ban] and claim to not be, and may force a legal fight.”

    I guess that’s where Github and Steam will fight

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    9 hours ago

    Great to have this investigative reporting into a government’s efforts towards the subversion of free speech and censorship from …Disney/ABC.

    It doesn’t matter they put Kimmel back on; they bent the knee and kissed the ring and showed, to no one’s surprise, that corporations care only about profits and access to power to increase profits.

    Edit: delighted to learn there are places where ABC isn’t own by fascists.