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Six Corporations control 90% of the media in America. They can make business decisions to censor whomever they want and they are global corporations doing lots of business in China.

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> Six Corporations control 90% of the media in America

Totally incomparable.

America has the First Amendment. Its government and corporations can be held accountable in courts. Any rando has the capacity to pine off about anything on Twitter. Meanwhile China boasts a centralised bureaucracy literally censoring Winnie the Pooh images because its dictator doesn’t like his resemblance.

Yes, America has a media ownership concentration problem. No, it’s not remotely comparable to Xi’s Beijing.

As has been spammed in many threads about hate speech type censorship before, only the government is legally accountable to the First Amendment, private businesses and that corporate personhood BS can use their own freedom of speech to censor whoever they want on their platforms.

Yes because there is only one government for any given piece of land. Fortunately for you, there are many private businesses to choose from. You can even start your own if you like.

Exactly. By surrendering more and more of our society to the private sector, we're surrendering more and more to organizations in which we don't get a vote.

We vote with our dollars.

No, investors vote with their dollars.

We are increasingly becoming the product that is being sold.

No it’s not comical, considering we’re looking at an American corporation doing the censoring here.

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