Free Speech and (Big Tech) Censorship Thread

Captain X

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Bear Ribs

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'Nother article on it, though it looks like a scraping.

This could hit T-mobile very, very hard if there was any political party willing to make a move. Phone companies are common carriers, they do not have the hazy protection of being either a platform or a publisher, whichever is more convenient at the moment, that social media companies do.
 

Cherico

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Husky_Khan

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LinkedIn has apparently followed Twitter in banning Dr. Robert Malone.

Robert Malone said:
last night Linkedin decided I was not a fit human to be on their platform. In another blink of an eye of big tech, Linkin flushed my 30,000 connections and de-platformed me. No explanations, no warnings were given. I can say that I rarely post anything on Link-in that is controversial anymore, since they de-platformed me, re-instated me and then apologized for it last summer. This was not a surprise - just more of the same censorship that is happening everywhere.


 

prinCZess

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What nincompoops are out there actually paying to use the garbage, in principle and apparently operation, that is Word 365 instead of one of the previous iterations from a CD that you actually own or one of the alternates that are free and don't make you a fricken' subscription-slave to Microsoft, though?

Serious question, actually. It boggles my mind why anyone would touch 365 with a ten-foot pole...I guess businesses have to do it for security reasons or something? That's the only thing that occurs to me.
 

Bear Ribs

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What nincompoops are out there actually paying to use the garbage, in principle and apparently operation, that is Word 365 instead of one of the previous iterations from a CD that you actually own or one of the alternates that are free and don't make you a fricken' subscription-slave to Microsoft, though?

Serious question, actually. It boggles my mind why anyone would touch 365 with a ten-foot pole...I guess businesses have to do it for security reasons or something? That's the only thing that occurs to me.
I honestly have the same reaction. I have not used a paid-for word processor outside of work since somewhere around 2003-ish. As far as I can tell, the pricey Microsoft products have nothing* the free software doesn't.

*Rounded up.
 

Terthna

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What nincompoops are out there actually paying to use the garbage, in principle and apparently operation, that is Word 365 instead of one of the previous iterations from a CD that you actually own or one of the alternates that are free and don't make you a fricken' subscription-slave to Microsoft, though?

Serious question, actually. It boggles my mind why anyone would touch 365 with a ten-foot pole...I guess businesses have to do it for security reasons or something? That's the only thing that occurs to me.
Mostly old people who never bothered to try and understand computers, and don't realize that there are alternatives.
 

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