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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: bighairymike   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Ministry of Truth
Date: 07/05/23 7:25 PM
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But since the hosting site has policies that it has voluntarily chosen to adopt (goes the argument), government can take action to help the hosting site do what it already wants to do - more effectively prohibit the conversation for hosting site's own purposes. - albaby

Perhaps even stationing some FBI agents at their facility to make those discussions easier. Or the platform making special API's available to the government to facilitate the government submitting helpful suggestions so the platform can better understand (expand) the scope of that which the platform already wanted to ban but may not have realized it until the government pointed it out. This seems dangerous to me.

I read something that helps me understand the seemingly endless opposition of views, paraphrasing,

"The difference between the factions is that progressives fundamentally trust whatever the government is saying whereas the conservative fundamentally is skeptical of whatever the government is saying."

That I think explains our differing views on the Government/Corporate alliance with respect to what is <mis>information .
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