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raxxorraxor on Nov 1, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook and Twitter have portals for the governme...

The fight against spam is entirely different from the fight against misinformation. It is dishonest to compare it to removing certain political talking points or discrediting or deplatforming them.

astrange on Nov 1, 2022 [–]

And yet you said only illegal content should be moderated away, but spam isn’t illegal so…

(Politics and spam are also of course closely related, I get unsolicited donation SMS all the time.)

raxxorraxor on Nov 2, 2022 | [–]

Depends. In my jurisdiction spam is very much illegal if it didn't get consent from the user.

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