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Twitter and FB are private businesses, China is a state. The US state is not deleting nor forcing or requesting deletion of accounts.

Russian propaganda bots are that, propaganda bots. Hate speech is a different issue.

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In the USA we let capitalism do our dirty deeds so that gov't doesn't have to :-)

Exactly. These are enormous private governments at this point and should be treated like government.

They partnered with the Atlantic Council which is essentially a board the most evil capitalistic & imperialistic motherfuckers from past US government to decide what to censor. It's essentially state censorship and it's worrying to me.

I'm not sure how to fix such without getting the gov't involved, except maybe splitting Big Media (BM) per anti-trust laws. Either you regulate BM by policing their speech filtering or you regulate them by splitting them. And splitting BM won't guarantee their smaller versions won't do the same thing.

>Russian propaganda bots are that, propaganda bots.

What is Russian propaganda though?

A mishmash of whatever currently serves the Kremlin's interests.

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